GUIDANCE IN LISTENING TO THE RAV’S SHIURIM [#16570]

November 7, 2021

QUESTION:

1)There are so many areas of avodas Hashem that the Rav explains in his shiurim and sefarim. Every day I want to learn about something else that I feel I have a need for, and sometimes in the same say I will hear different shiurim of the Rav on all different topics. Do I need to be consistent and stay within one area at a time before moving on to the next subject, or can I jump around from one topic to another based upon what I feel I have a need to learn about at the moment?

ANSWER:

Be consistent [stay within one topic at a time].
QUESTION
2) How did the Rav reach such clarity in avodas Hashem and to put together all the different views in avodas Hashem and synthesize them all together? How can a person be zocheh to this? Is there a particular topic I can learn about which will bring me to the same level that the Rav was zocheh to?
ANSWER
[No answer. The Rav declined to answer.]
How it can be that a Kolel avreich is moser nefesh to serve Hashem and keeps every chumra, even a chumra d’rabanan on a mitzvah d’rabanan, yet he is lax about the issue of avodah zarah in sheitels today? We are talking about avodah zarah here!! This should be much more of a serious issue than chumros about keeping Shemittah m’drabanan and giving maaser on money which is d’rabanan….
ANSWER
If there are any negios (ulterior motivations) in asking this question, it is not a question at all!