tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206265597250436454.post5234074670241346971..comments2023-03-26T17:32:37.753-04:00Comments on On This And On That - על דא ועל הא: Rabbi Dr. Shimon Yisroel Pozen - a Doctor, a ZealotY. http://www.blogger.com/profile/00852218508652846269noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206265597250436454.post-66630077851790477712012-02-20T21:49:39.454-05:002012-02-20T21:49:39.454-05:00"From a reliable source, I heard that when so..."From a reliable source, I heard that when someone told R. Yehiel Yaakov Weinberg about R. Shimon Yisroel and his zealousness, R Weinberg replied, "I saw R. Pozen's doctorate in Giessen, and it was full of apikorsus!"<br /><br />That comment reminds me of my BT's wife's mother, who loves to comment on her daughters childhood enjoyment of treif food.<br /><br />Not very complimentary to RYYW!CCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206265597250436454.post-51535529722599808372012-02-13T13:48:50.051-05:002012-02-13T13:48:50.051-05:00Apart for a medical exemption, I doubt there was a...Apart for a medical exemption, I doubt there was any way for someone born in 1894 to have avoided the army during WWI.<br /><br />Nachum, when and why do you think German young men were going to study in the yeshivot of Eastern Europe? This was largely an interwar phenomenon (although I'm sure there are isolated examples even earlier).S.http://onthemainline.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206265597250436454.post-7837493580050402312012-02-13T06:49:28.118-05:002012-02-13T06:49:28.118-05:00Nachum, he writes that from 1915 until 1920 he ser...Nachum, he writes that from 1915 until 1920 he served as a hussar in the German army. But you are right that there were other influences as well.Y. https://www.blogger.com/profile/00852218508652846269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206265597250436454.post-18814362311475694412012-02-13T04:30:26.388-05:002012-02-13T04:30:26.388-05:00So he wasn't in the army? In any event, greate...So he wasn't in the army? In any event, greater influences were:<br /><br />1. German young men going to study in the big yeshivot of Eastern Europe and feeling that their form of Judaism was inferior.<br /><br />2. Eastern European refugees in Germany during and after World War I.Nachumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5206265597250436454.post-34586193973030261542012-02-12T13:39:42.626-05:002012-02-12T13:39:42.626-05:00here's an older picture of him (to better your...here's an older picture of him (to better your imagination of what he looked like in his "younger, more left-wing years", though not that young) http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/he/71910_69550.html <br /><br />Interesting to note, this academic lishe'avar had close ties with the Divrei Yoel (not so much the academic type) later on. <br /><br />[As a side note] not to be confused with the shu"t Raba"z, who was Romanian and carried the last name Safrin (Sopron). Indeed, both families had close ties with the Divrei Yoel (back in Hungary).Ovadyanoreply@blogger.com