Monday, July 25, 2022

Rav Moshe Tendler

 https://mishpacha.com/brilliant-mind-golden-heart/

 As a son-in-law of the posek hador, Rav Moshe Tendler quickly became a major figure in Rav Moshe Feinstein’s positions on Jewish law and bioethics, writing many articles in prominent medical and Torah journals alike.

 

 This was a major problem in the yeshiva world as he and his son would assert that a certain view was from Rav Moshe and it wasn't accepted as such.

I once net him at a simcha and said to him,"Since you are the main source of Rav Moshe's knowledge of scientific information Why did Rav Moshe state that Natural child birth  is merely a trick to convince the woman she is not experiencing pain?" He replied that he "was not Rav Moshe's main source and that though he was not aware of this particular tshuva which is in Igros Moshe he agreed fully with it."

 

When Rav Moshe was niftar I was told that a number of major poskim went to Rav Dovid and asked him to clarify the major disputes regarding Rav Moshe's true views. He replied "let them believe what they want but I refuse to get involved in a public dispute in these matters." I was also told that this was in fact Rav Moshe' own attitude toward public disputes. As a consequence there is still not a clear view on many issues.

2 comments :

  1. but there was no balancing act with YU - it was simply ruled treif in the Rav Shach era.
    Since Rav Elyashiv and Kanievsky ztl , and the rise of Rav Hershel Shachter, YU seems to be half acceptable again.

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  2. The leaders of the generation are like dogs. They run in front but keep looking over their shoulders to make sure people are following. If people change direction, they run in that direction too and announce that they're still leading.
    Rav Tender, zt"L, said stuff that "the Gedolim" and their followers didn't want to hear because it wasn't what they thought Rav Moshe, z"tl, SHOULD have said. Oh well.
    (Irony: Rav Moshe,zt"l, more than once dealth with problematic psaks from earlier authorites by announcing they must be forgeries because they didn't fit the pattern he was expecting)

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