One of my Favorite Izhbitzers and Rabbi Simon MeUman Parshat Shoftim
Just a disclaimer that this has a lot of my own personal interpretation here.
The holy Izhbitzer explains the prohibition of planting a tree near the Alter in the Tabernacle (found in the first Aliya of Shoftim) as a parallel to the prohibition of praying in back of your Rebbe (Hilchot Tefilah in the Shulchan Aruch). A tree is like a Torah scholar for the Torah is compared to Eitz Chayim or a living tree and although we must surrender ourselves to Torah scholars because they know more Torah than us, we cannot pray to be like them because in prayer we are talking to God who is the source of all salvation and blessing. We have to ask God to be even greater and to reach even higher. Therefore, we cannot place a tree tree near the Alter, the quintessential place of prayer or pray in back of our Rebbe in order that we not limit ourselves in our conversation with God. So in other words, you can be the Gadol Hador in prayer.
This is from Rabbi Simon MeUman.
The Rambam writes in Hilchot Rotzach Ushmirat Nefesh7:1 that a Torah scholar who murders accidentally must go to the Ir Miklat and his Rebbe must accompany him because the verse says V'Chay, that he should live and that a scholar who lives without wisdom is death for him. Rabbi Goldvicht, Rosh Yeshiva Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh asks, ok so he doesn't have is Rebbe with him, but there are other Rabbis who can teach him in the Ir HaMiklat!? Rabbi Goldvicht explains that his learning will not be as good as if it would be with his own personal Rebbe and that difference between learning and really good learning is called death for the Torah scholar.
Pshh
The holy Izhbitzer explains the prohibition of planting a tree near the Alter in the Tabernacle (found in the first Aliya of Shoftim) as a parallel to the prohibition of praying in back of your Rebbe (Hilchot Tefilah in the Shulchan Aruch). A tree is like a Torah scholar for the Torah is compared to Eitz Chayim or a living tree and although we must surrender ourselves to Torah scholars because they know more Torah than us, we cannot pray to be like them because in prayer we are talking to God who is the source of all salvation and blessing. We have to ask God to be even greater and to reach even higher. Therefore, we cannot place a tree tree near the Alter, the quintessential place of prayer or pray in back of our Rebbe in order that we not limit ourselves in our conversation with God. So in other words, you can be the Gadol Hador in prayer.
This is from Rabbi Simon MeUman.
The Rambam writes in Hilchot Rotzach Ushmirat Nefesh7:1 that a Torah scholar who murders accidentally must go to the Ir Miklat and his Rebbe must accompany him because the verse says V'Chay, that he should live and that a scholar who lives without wisdom is death for him. Rabbi Goldvicht, Rosh Yeshiva Yeshivat Kerem B'Yavneh asks, ok so he doesn't have is Rebbe with him, but there are other Rabbis who can teach him in the Ir HaMiklat!? Rabbi Goldvicht explains that his learning will not be as good as if it would be with his own personal Rebbe and that difference between learning and really good learning is called death for the Torah scholar.
Pshh
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