The Vilna Gaon: When Halacha Clashes with Devekut

Rabbi Alan Kimche has been a Rav and senior lecturer for over thirty years. In his yeshiva years in Yerushalayim, he learnt under the guidance of HaGaon R. Shlomo Zalman Auerbach zt”l, HaGaon R. Chaim Shmulevitz zt”l and with Rav Yehoshua Neuwirth zt’’l. After receiving his Semicha, he moved to London and became the Rav of a new shul, Ner Yisrael. ...