Yakov Shimon on the voices from the conversation
Visitors are speculating whether Barry Gourary was a totally observant Jew. This is what I observed during my dealings with him. The only thing unorthodox within the Gourary home was that his wife Minna did not cover her hair.
Minna claimed that her uncle�s wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, did not cover her hair either, only in her later years did she cover. Other than that, the two, Barry and his wife, were extremely well versed in Halacha and all topics of Yidishkeit and they led a life that was indicative that they knew Halacha and observed it.
Their stepdaughters behaved like regular Modern Orthodox Jews and one married an Orthodox doctor.
My whole dealings with Barry started at the time of the court case he had with his uncle about the library of his grandfather.
In a previous post I mentioned the reason for his reaching out to me. Barry felt that he was the Yoresh (which he would be according to Halachic dictum) and he felt that Halachically and legally some Seforim belonged to him. He further felt, rather strongly, that no Rebbe is above halacha and, at one point tried to prove to me that rebbes are humans and speculated the fault on the Gabbaim/Secretaries.
Barry felt that Gabbaim have stakes in outcomes of Rebbe�s lives and that in his case they themselves might have wanted to eventually have stakes in that library. Why else, he wondered, did the Gabbaim become so engrossed in fighting him and creating a movement out of the court case, which was simply a question of legalities of who to inherit a library. He related to me that he remembered a time from his childhood when the Secretary/Gabbai Faigin had a fight with his grandfather. He said the voices from the conversation were heard many rooms farther down because there was such a huge disagreement, and he said that Faigin rightfully saw his place as secretary to explain to a Rebbe when they overstep boundaries. He just wished the Gabbaim advising his uncle would have the sense of responsibility to have advised right, instead of becoming a part of the problem in fanning the flames of dispute way beyond any Halachic parameter.
A few bloggers mentioned the pain that Barry caused for his uncle, therefore no ahavas yisroel should be expressed towards him. It seems illogical to me that anyone who causes great pain for our great Father In Heaven by doing Aviros is being loved and respected and the Dor Hashimini who only indirectly might have caused pain for his uncle should be treated in such a manner.
Minna claimed that her uncle�s wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, did not cover her hair either, only in her later years did she cover. Other than that, the two, Barry and his wife, were extremely well versed in Halacha and all topics of Yidishkeit and they led a life that was indicative that they knew Halacha and observed it.
Their stepdaughters behaved like regular Modern Orthodox Jews and one married an Orthodox doctor.
My whole dealings with Barry started at the time of the court case he had with his uncle about the library of his grandfather.
In a previous post I mentioned the reason for his reaching out to me. Barry felt that he was the Yoresh (which he would be according to Halachic dictum) and he felt that Halachically and legally some Seforim belonged to him. He further felt, rather strongly, that no Rebbe is above halacha and, at one point tried to prove to me that rebbes are humans and speculated the fault on the Gabbaim/Secretaries.
Barry felt that Gabbaim have stakes in outcomes of Rebbe�s lives and that in his case they themselves might have wanted to eventually have stakes in that library. Why else, he wondered, did the Gabbaim become so engrossed in fighting him and creating a movement out of the court case, which was simply a question of legalities of who to inherit a library. He related to me that he remembered a time from his childhood when the Secretary/Gabbai Faigin had a fight with his grandfather. He said the voices from the conversation were heard many rooms farther down because there was such a huge disagreement, and he said that Faigin rightfully saw his place as secretary to explain to a Rebbe when they overstep boundaries. He just wished the Gabbaim advising his uncle would have the sense of responsibility to have advised right, instead of becoming a part of the problem in fanning the flames of dispute way beyond any Halachic parameter.
A few bloggers mentioned the pain that Barry caused for his uncle, therefore no ahavas yisroel should be expressed towards him. It seems illogical to me that anyone who causes great pain for our great Father In Heaven by doing Aviros is being loved and respected and the Dor Hashimini who only indirectly might have caused pain for his uncle should be treated in such a manner.
posted by Tzemach Atlas at 11:33 AM
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