Hagaon Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman Zt”L

an old tomad came to visit rabaran leyman and he hadn't been in his house for over 30 years and he remarked everything here still looks the same Reby to which raran La smiled and he said it's not the house that's supposed to be updated and renovated it's the people that live in the house that are really supposed to change raran La lived a life of incredible growth he was always learning tum recall how he would always be hunched over his gamor and would rarely go back to his room to sleep he would doze off by a shender for for a few hours a night and then he would resume learning and his greatness in Torah ultimately led him to publish his famous work a sakar with 17 volumes on Shas and five volumes on Kish yet a few years before his passing when his son tried to arrange for him to be able to go learn in a quiet apartment somewhere else so that nobody else can bother him raran Le politely declined and he said if I do that then where am I going to get from people come to me at all hours of the night for advice and for bras I need to be able to have those it was common knowledge that raran La had such a warm and caring heart and his AAS was beyond and that's why so many people would line up outside of his house to come on in for his cabis kahal where he would greet people and meet with each one individually and his sensitivities were so deep that most days after he had met with everybody he would sit with his eyes closed for about 5 to 10 minutes deep in thought and mumbling some words at one time his grandson asked him sabba are you preparing for the Shia are you learning cabala what are you doing he said after I hear so many tarus and clol I can't help but feel for everybody's pain and spend a few minutes doing for each and every single individual raron La was always looking to see what he could do for individuals and despite his own personal poverty would put money in envelopes and deliver them to aim in need after rebbit and Steinman had passed away several grandchildren would come on chabas and sing ziros with RI Steinman to liven up his meal and after this was going on for seven years RI Steinman told them we have to stop and they said why what's the problem to which he responded that my neighbor upstairs passed away last week and there's an almana living there and how is she going to feel when she hears the beautiful zirus of the shabas meal that's coming from our apartment and it reminds her of the beautiful days together with her husband when she had beautiful shabas meals as well and it was only after they found out that her grandchildren were also coming to sing miros with her that rabar and La agreed that we could resume and while his mind was so focused on individuals he was just as focused on the entire Claus as well in 1998 when raar Le was already 84 years old he decided that he has to build Torah throughout erit yel he started Yesa Aras Torah in B BR and then he went on to start another Yeshiva reel Torah in carel and and as if that wasn't enough he said we have to start Yesa Tor in as and then later decided to start Yeshiva near zerak in southern Israel he started yeshivas everywhere he had started with 20 talmidim and over 20 years he built it up to over 2,000 talim and 1300 aim but he didn't stop there raran La saw the incredible need for kir and that's why he got involved with arim and he was one of the driving forces behind the start of leim one of the largest kir of organizations throughout and it's no wonder that Rim kki considered RAR Le to be the leader to all of the yeshivas and MIM around the country Ros Yesa Rim kir professionals would all come to consult with rabar and to get his expertise in K and raising the bar as far as K's children raar Le believe that he was given a long life in order to strengthen clausell and for that reason he decided even in his old age to undertake missions traveling around the world he said the purpose of these missions is to help increase Torah observance and shmiras hamzah throughout the world and that's exactly what happened like the fellow in the Marcel Jewish Community who was scheduled to marry a non-jewish girl 6 weeks later yet the speech from RAR La touched him so deeply that he decided to break the engagement and after speaking with raron LA several months later telling him what happened raron La told him that now you've taking the first step and after that we have to learn what it means to really be a Jew and this fellow sat down and he started learning increasing his Torah and his Mitzvah and today is a marbit Torah in was a aake an advisor a m throughout every single thing he did it was all about one thing about building Torah and Claus now is the time we have to ask ourselves can I learn a little bit more like La can I develop my sensitivities a little bit more like rabar and La can I become a person who cares about to and Mitzvah just like raron [Music] leein