Ruach Shlomo - Sefer Bereishis

The shmuessen that Rav Wolbe delivered throughout his life were transmitted in a masterful way. His talent as an orator - an extraordinary talent - was revealed very early on. Already in Berlin as a schoolboy, he regularly addressed young people at the meetings held on Shabbos afternoon.

Shortly thereafter, in Elul 5693, September 193,3 when the Chafetz Chaim left this world, leaving the void that we know, it was the young Shlomo Wolbe, then a bachur at the Montreux yeshiva, who was asked to pay tribute to him in public at the yeshiva. the hesped that he gave was memorable.

He quoted the verse from tehillim " nothing is said, there is no speech, their voice is not heard. Yet their rays extend over the whole earth, and their words reach the ends of the world."
He interpreted it as follows:  The Chafetz Chaim held no formal position at the time, therefore he did not make his voice heard. Yet the rays of his Torah have spread to the four corners of the earth.

When he arrived in the Mir yeshiva the following year, he tried to find out wheat his rabbi, Rav Yerucham, had said in his hesped of the Chafetz Chaim, and to his amazement, he laerned that he had quoted the same verse and stated the same idea.

Published in Hebrew, English, French and Spanish, the shmuessen that Rav Wolbe delivered after his departure  from the Be'er Yaakov yeshiva, a period in which he held no official  position, is a way of paying him the same tribute that he paid to the Chafetz Chaim ninety years ago: without any formal post in any institution, his voice reached the four corners of the earth.

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