Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Stories about the Hafetz Hayim

R. Nosson Kamenetsky, in his classic Making of a Godol (p. xx), quotes Rebbitzen Feigel Zaks, the Hafetz Hayim's youngest daughter, as saying: "Eighty percent of what they tell about [my father] is not true." R. Kamenetsky adds: "I cannot help but assume that in order to bring out bluntly the idea that not everything told about R' Yisrael-Meir Kagan, author of Chafetz Chaim, is true, his daughter exaggerated the percentage of untruths."


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