Searching for Books
Rabbi Eli Garfinkel
September 1, 2026
Some people have eidetic or even photographic memory. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman, the father of the Vilna Gaon, was not one of them. Whenever he questioned his memory of a text, he would go straight to the bookshelves and look up the reference. That way, he could be confident that he was citing and attributing the…
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