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Mouth of the donkey ("פִי הָאָתוֹן"): how can the Rambam seem to contradict the mishnah in Pirkei Avos?
Like Rambam, Ralbag also maintains that this incident did not occur in real life, and he explicitly discusses the view of the Sages:
והנה דעת רבותינו ז”ל הוא שזה הענין היה כפשוטו ולזה אמרו שפי ...
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Source for a story about the Mir Yeshiva on the train to Shanghai?
I read this story in an essay from R. Schechter entitled ‘Ego and Humility in Torah Study’:
During the Second World War, when the students of the Mirrer Yeshiva were traveling for a week and a half ...
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Source for a story about the Mir Yeshiva on the train to Shanghai?
Rav Schachter read the story in the book "Operation--Torah rescue: The escape of the Mirrer Yeshiva from war-torn Poland to Shanghai, China" by Yecheskel Leitner, page 68.
Here's an excerpt:
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