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Who Is Rabbenu Kachlon?
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Who Is Rabbenu Kachlon?
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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.