Crushed Fingers - Rabbi David Kaplan

one of the great tour leaders of our generation risa generations was gray robe at moshe feinstein of blessed memory moshe fight scene was a man who was a master of all areas of torah scholarship and when he passed away his funeral was attended by over 300,000 people when he was a man who was beloved too many what causes beloved this was that only his great tourist scholarship but the way he related to people in his consideration for every individual by fine scene was once on his way from his home to the yeshivah the Tal miracle academy where he's taught and he was the head of and when he got got into the car in front of his house with a few a number of his students and when he got to the yeshivah to the toe medical academy one of the boys noticed that my fine scene was clutching his fingers he was holding his fingers obviously in pain and he asked her by Feinstein what happened why are you holding your finger refine Singh said to him when I got into the car the young man who closed the car door slammed the car door on my fingers so the student was shocked because anybody who's ever experienced getting fingers caught in anything knows how much it hurts student cetera by Feinstein but Rebbe I didn't hear you yell I didn't you didn't make a peep revising smile that a student said no no I didn't want to make any noise I didn't want to yell because if I would yell the young man who closed the door on my fingers would feel bad that he had done such a thing and he sees me as an elderly Torah scholar he would feel very very bad and therefore rather than cause him pain I suffered my pain in silence now you have to understand it's a mind-boggling story most people simply react when in pain they have to understand that there are two it nerve impulses that are rushing to the brain one impulse is the impulse of pain there's another impulse rushing to the brain called sensitivity for other people in rabbi moshe feinstein the sensitivity impulse was developed to such an extent that that impulse reached the brain at the same time as the pain and therefore considering the emotional pain the young man would suffer feeling that he closed the door on a finger of a great rabbi moshe fights had suppressed the natural urge to scream to yell out because of his finely developed sensitivity for his fellow man you