0559 - Comparison and Contrast Between Harav Yosef Engel and The Rogatchover

00:01 We know that the Rebbe's Chashna Gikocht in the Torah of the Ragatchover. We know that the Rebbe would bring him by Kimat. Every time he would say a Ninian Nigla, he would bring Svara of the Ragatchover. The Rebbe had correspondence with the Ragatchover himself, even from when he was very young. The Rebbe would even speak, visit the Ragatchover when the Friediker Rebbe was in Leningrad, and the Rebbe was there. He would go into the Ragatchover. That's what they say. So he was very close to the learning of the Ragatchover. Also, quite often, the Rebbe in the Sichas brings from Rebbe Yosef Engel, from the Svarim of Rebbe Yosef Engel, who wrote the Svarim Asman Dereise, Beisar Oitzer, Lekachtev, different things that Rebbe brings from Rebbe Yosef Engel. So in the Fabringen of Achash Pesach Tov Shen Lamad Vav, the Rebbe spoke about the similarity between Rebbe Yosef Engel and the Ragatchover, and also in the difference between them. The similarity the Rebbe said between them in their Svarim is, in the Derech Halimut of their Svarim, is that they both look for Ayinian Kloli, and they gather Kloli in many, many different Inyonim. You could have different Sugias, completely different Sugias. One is a Sugia of Momen, one is a Sugia of Isur, which are completely different Klolim, different Kdorim. And one is Agadif, it could be, one is Halacha. Nevertheless, both of them would find a Nekude, which there are many, many Inyonim are connected to. So they would find a Klal that connects

01:26 many different Inyonim. That side the Ragatchover did, and side Rebbe Yosef Engel did. Nevertheless, the difference the Rebbe said is like this. The Ragatchover writes much more Bikitzer, very, very short, and he also writes, but even Kloli. He writes things very general. He doesn't titush everything very Klolim. He gives out Klolim on the whole Torah, many Klolim on, in different Inyonim and Torah, but he writes it very Kloli. But Rebbe Yosef Engel also does the same thing. He finds Inyonim Klolim in many different, different Inyonim, but not with the same Breitkeit as the Ragatchover. And another thing, by Ragatchover, we find many, many Chidushim, comes up with new ideas in different Inyonim. Mashinke Rebbe Yosef Engel, the Rebbe said even though for sure there are Chidushim, but the Rebbe said he didn't find too many new Inyonim and Nukdorim. Because by Rebbe Yosef Engel, what he does is he asks, he brings a Klal, and he brings different places in Shas that fits to one side of the Klal, to the other side of the Klal. So usually it's not Chidushim, he just brings out from different Gemaras, which we see the Klolim. So he doesn't write Chidushim. So the Rebbe said, "Leisata," so far he didn't see so many Chidushim in him. He just, he brings out the Klolim of the different Inyonim. Mashinke the Ragatchover has many, many Chidushim. So generally speaking, the Rebbe said the general approach is that they're both on the same style, that they're looking for the Inyonim Klolim

02:52 that connect many different Inyonim, Momen and Isur and Agadit and Halacha and different Inyonim. They both look for the Nekude Klolis, for the Klolim that make them all together go into the same minyan. The difference is by the Ragatchover, it's, was more, more Breit than Rebbe Yosef Engel. And also by the Ragatchover, there are many, many Chidushim, which we don't find so much by Rebbe Yosef Engel.