August 24, 2024; 20 Av, 5784 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
Rav Avraham Grodzinsky ZT”L (1884-1944) was the Mashgiach Ruchani (spiritual supervisor) of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania after Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ZT”L (the Alter of Slabodka) moved half of the Yeshiva to Chevron in Israel. Rav Grodzinsky was the personification of the Middah of Emes. In his work, “Toras Avrohom” he writes that even in the performance of a Mitzvah, when one’s inner motivations do not really reflect his outer actions, it is a lack of inner Emes. Of course, we still perform the Mitzvah in the spirit of the idea that, “Achar HaP’eulos Nimshachim HaLevavos – the hearts follow the implementation of actions”...