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Opinion and Comment The True Influencers By Chaim Walder This is a fictionalized story but it is based on facts and on true names. The author wishes to especially acknowledge the help of Rav Dov Eliach, author of HaGaon. Part I If you were to ask any Vilna resident you passed on the street, "Who is the wealthiest person in the city?" - nine of ten would have led you directly to the estate of Rav Moshe Yitzchok, otherwise called "the rosh hakohol." The tenth person wouldn't have led you there - not because he disagreed with the ninth but because he was surely one of the ascetic residents of Vilna who abstained from the pleasures of this world, and was occupied with Torah study day and night. In such a person's eyes, a question such as, "Who is the wealthiest man in the city?" is not a question one should bother to answer. For him, by his very question, the asker is declaring that he is the type of person who shouldn't be answered at all.

Opinion and Comment New Chapters from the Life and Teachings of R' Yisroel Salanter zy'a Excerpts from the memorial book, Kedosh Yisroel published about two years ago - yahrtzeit: 5 Shvat, 5643 Approaches to Study: "One must know its length and breadth" The Chofetz Chaim asked Maran R' Yisroel Salanter whether it is preferable to review a subject under study several times or to strive for a broader grasp by covering many subjects, even if one would not know them each as thoroughly. The reply was, "One must know the gamut of the length and breadth of Hashem's Torah."