Preparing video...
0:00 / 0:00

Who Is Rabbenu Kachlon?

885 views
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips avatar
Rabbi Yaron Reuven Short Torah Clips

Transcript

Auto-generated transcript. Not time-synced to the video.

My rabbi is Rabbi Ephraim Kachlon. Rabbi Ephraim Kachlon is also happens to be my cousin, but I didn't know he even existed until I met him. And he's the one that helped me do chuva. He's the one that I've been learning with learning with every single day since I started. And he is For anyone who doesn't know, he's an extraordinary talmid chacham. He's av bet din in Yerushalayim. He gives shiurim every single day. He is He's written over 50 books by now. Halacha books, responsa, parshat shavua, shas. You know, kabbalah, pretty much every every every topic across the spectrum of the Torah. And um He's Baruch Hashem, he's not only someone that as has taught me Torah, but is someone that guides me on a daily day basis. There's nothing that I do without asking him first. What he thinks, yes or no, good or not. And there's no limitation. This goes for everything from personal to to teaching, to students, to everything. Even if I know the answer. Even if There's somebody asked me an halacha question or somebody asked me a specific question. I ask him. I tell him, "Listen, this is the question. I think this is the answer. Am I right or am I wrong?" And the reason why is because I know different parts of my own yetzer hara and and I know how what what I need. And therefore, I know that one of the things that I need is I need to not trust myself. I need to always humble myself to not to I never rely on just my own opinion. Because once you start relying on your own opinion, there's a there's no limitation of how far that can go in the wrong direction. So, I always want to make sure that whatever I do, whatever I say, whatever I quote in the in the Shiurim, everything has a backing behind it, and that's why also anytime somebody tells me that they don't like what I say, I said, "Well, your problem is not with me. Your problem is maybe with the Rambam, with the Baalei Tosfos, or maybe with Rashi, or maybe you have a problem with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, or Rabbi Akiva, his Rabbi. Maybe even have a problem with Moshe Rabbeinu. Your problem is definitely not with me, because everything that I'm bringing you is from them." So, when I when I learn with with him, one of the things that I always ask him is to always show me the sources, because it's not only that I learn from him what where is something specific is, but also try to learn around it. What's before it, what's after it, if I could add to it, if I could uh bring some more color to certain things, explanations, and so on. But, this is Baruch Hashem what's worked in the last 12 years of teaching. And I think that you know, again, it's if it wasn't for that, I would still be on Wall Street.