That God made man upright [Ecclesiastes 7].
Every young Haredi, it turns out, knows how to quote - even before the passing of the Rosh Yeshiva, zt"l - with his eyes shining, the sayings and readings of the Rabbi, zt"l, from 'Pride Pride' video' The famous.
Every Haredi, but also everyone who is interested in the Haredi world, smiles lovingly as he repeats the cry of the Grail: "Where will they send the children, to the moon? You think they are crazy, you are crazy, they just want a good Haidar for the children.".
Why is this video so popular? Why is it quoted over and over again on every news site? Because of one verse in Ecclesiastes: "God made man upright.".
This verse is also the direct reason why the old man who passed away at the age of 104 had so much love, so much appreciation, so much admiration for him.
He was a giant in Torah, without a doubt. A great devout, a sublime righteous man, and a rare God-fearer. He does not need our approval of these values.
But there was another element in his leadership that touched all of us: honesty, combined with great intelligence - one that amazed its viewers every time.
The Rosh Yeshiva, zt"l, could not tolerate forgery, deceit, or crookedness. G-d indeed made man upright, but it turns out that humans sought many accounts, and only G-d in heaven knows how many accounts, overt, hidden, and sometimes even hidden from the questioner himself, accompanied every issue that came to his table.
But then, the yeshiva's head, Zt"l, would respond with a sharp simplicity that would resolve the problem and put it back on track, to the astonishment of the person who asked, who would usually respond: 'So simple, so straightforward, how could we not have thought of it that way?'.
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When my good friend entered the sanctuary to tell the rabbi that he had been offered a good and God-fearing girl, but that he was afraid because her father did not have a particularly good name - the rabbi replied simply: The father of our forefather Abraham was also called Terah, and here is Abraham, the father of the nation before us.
Simple, logical, elementary, right?
And in general, where did the primitive notion that the girl should be the daughter of a well-known personality come from? This may be just a small and not very important anecdote, but the Haredi public also, it turns out, has common sense, or as it is called in English, common sense.
In this respect, he is no different from any other group, and he knows how to recognize when he is faced with a giant, whose insides are completely bare, devoid of any personal appearance, and whose voice is clear, sharp, direct, and sometimes accompanied by characteristic humor.
God also made us upright, and we realized this very quickly.
You don't have to be a great mystic to believe that God, the Almighty, planted in our complex era precisely this great Jew, endowed with absolute wisdom and integrity.
Only he himself, it turns out, did not see this as a special virtue. In his moving will, he begged not to be scorned with titles of honor such as "righteous and God-fearing," and on the tombstone of the man who led hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox people to the word of God, it will be written only at his request: "Here is buried Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib, son of Rabbi Noah Zvi Steinman.".
• Eliezer HaYun, 10 Haredim
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