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Rabbi Siegel PLOIKAVCTEIASSOTIVTIUIOLURNLSE
he moved into the workforce, R’ Shmuel Dovid consulted 35
with his rebbe, Rabbi Ruderman, for guidance and assis-
tance in charting his life’s course. He was counseled by the
Rosh Yeshiva to find a particular sugya in learning and
make that field of study his own.
If you got
stuck on
pshat in
gemara in
the Bais
Midrash, he
was the
final word.
Traveling the World through Zmanim
As a man of great discipline and precision in all aspects of
his observance of mitzvos, particularly davening, it was not
surprising that our father was drawn to the study of zman-
im. He reveled in the mathematical challenges and enjoyed
the computing and calculating that this absorbing area of
halachic study involved. Rabbi Dovid Heber, Rabbi of Khal
Adas Yisroel Tzemach Tzedek, a contemporary expert and
author in the zmanim field, considered our father a pri-
mary research source and expressed feeling fortunate to
have easy access to his expertise in the neighborhood.
About our father’s passion for the study of zmanim, Rabbi
Heber shares the following insight: “It is indeed a passion.
If you are into it, you can’t get enough of it…. You could see
the amkus, the depth to what your father did; for him,
there was no such thing as ‘fly by night.’”
Our father toiled and burnt the midnight oil for many
years as he worked in the family business during the day
and wrote late into the night after the family chores, such
as dishes, laundry, and homework with the children were
completed.
The fruits of R’ Shmuel Dovid’s labors were the “Sadeh”
trilogy: Atzei Sadeh, Tenuvas Sadeh, and Achuzas Sadeh
on time in halacha. As children, when we would ask him
about the choice and meaning of the titles of his sefarim,
he would explain with a shy smile that sadeh meant field
and that the word was an acronym for his Hebrew name,
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he moved into the workforce, R’ Shmuel Dovid consulted 35
with his rebbe, Rabbi Ruderman, for guidance and assis-
tance in charting his life’s course. He was counseled by the
Rosh Yeshiva to find a particular sugya in learning and
make that field of study his own.
If you got
stuck on
pshat in
gemara in
the Bais
Midrash, he
was the
final word.
Traveling the World through Zmanim
As a man of great discipline and precision in all aspects of
his observance of mitzvos, particularly davening, it was not
surprising that our father was drawn to the study of zman-
im. He reveled in the mathematical challenges and enjoyed
the computing and calculating that this absorbing area of
halachic study involved. Rabbi Dovid Heber, Rabbi of Khal
Adas Yisroel Tzemach Tzedek, a contemporary expert and
author in the zmanim field, considered our father a pri-
mary research source and expressed feeling fortunate to
have easy access to his expertise in the neighborhood.
About our father’s passion for the study of zmanim, Rabbi
Heber shares the following insight: “It is indeed a passion.
If you are into it, you can’t get enough of it…. You could see
the amkus, the depth to what your father did; for him,
there was no such thing as ‘fly by night.’”
Our father toiled and burnt the midnight oil for many
years as he worked in the family business during the day
and wrote late into the night after the family chores, such
as dishes, laundry, and homework with the children were
completed.
The fruits of R’ Shmuel Dovid’s labors were the “Sadeh”
trilogy: Atzei Sadeh, Tenuvas Sadeh, and Achuzas Sadeh
on time in halacha. As children, when we would ask him
about the choice and meaning of the titles of his sefarim,
he would explain with a shy smile that sadeh meant field
and that the word was an acronym for his Hebrew name,
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