Q:
Did Albert Einstein, who accomplished very much in the study of the sciences, waste his life by not studying Torah?
A:
Absolutely. מאי קא משמע לן .פשיטא. His life was 100% thrown out. He took his one life he had in the history of the world and he could have become maybe a gadol hador, maybe. At least he could become a frum Jew. He could have become a ben Olam Haba. And instead he became a nobody, a zero. He has no chelek l’Olam Haba. He’s nothing at all. He’s a failure she’b’failures.
It’s the greatest tragedy, the greatest pity, for the Jew who wastes his life and doesn’t realize he’s created for a purpose.
(September 1990)
Q:
What does the Rav think now that Albert Einstein was crowned the man of the century?
A:
Crowned? Who crowned him? That’s the first thing. If he was crowned let’s say by a frum organization, by the Agudas Harabonim maybe. But who crowned him? Ignorant people, amei ha’aretz. So it doesn’t mean a thing to us.
(December 30, 1999)
