Rav Yehuda Henkin's seforim
I have been running around seforim stores to find Rav Yehuda Henkin's Teshuvos - Benei Banim. Nothing. Finally I decided to call him and pay him a visit (he lives in Yerushalaim in Kiryat Moshe). He sold me the 4 volumes of the Teshuvos and even the 2 volume set of his Grandfather's Kesavim, which is also impossible to find. The seforim are amazing. I finished the first 2 volumes during the first evening I sat to read them. His ideas and psakim are so refreshing (especially after lots of recent nonsense going on in the Charedi world) that I got really excited. There is an awesome peirush on Chumash in the end of the 2nd volume. I finally saw a realistic pshat of why Avraham decided to tell the Egyptians that Sarah is his sister. The collected quotes from his grandfather, Rav Yosef Henkin (in the middle of the 2nd volume) is another master piece. Haven't seen anything like it since Rav Baruch Epstein's Mekor Baruch. Definitely not Artscroll material, if you know what I mean.
If you're in town, this is the one man worth to meet in person and definitely get the seforim. It made my week.
posted by Unknown @ 12/28/2005 04:29:00 PM
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He says that Avraham thought that if any of the regular Egyptians would want to marry her, they first would offer him presents (as was the local custom, and what happened with Pharouh later). And he would keep negotiating for different presents and this way waste lots of time in hope that by then the famine would be over and he would leave Egypt. So it was really a safe option in his mind. But he never thought of the fact that Pharouh himself might take her in which case there is no option of negotiations. He shows how to read all of this into psukim, which is really cool.
Hello,
I'll be in Israel soon, just for a few days. I've been looking for rav Yehuda Henkin's "Chibat Yetira" in the US but haven't found it. Is it difficult to find in Israel? If it is, do you think I can do what you did, just go the rav and ask him for one copy? How can I contact him in advance? Thank you.
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