He has overcome Rabad. Father helped him. How wonderful father is. That's the joy and pride in the great Talmudic chess master. There are the Masora of fathers and Masora of mothers.
Fathers translate the intellectual text - mothers translate living experience.
Papa-mama, the man of Halachah, the lonely Man of faith, reason and emotion, the Misnaged and Hasid. The Jewish ideal of religious personality is not the harmonious individual determined by the principle of equilibrium but the torn soul and the shattered spirit. Not to find in the spiritual struggle morbidity, sadness. But to find in it the depth and complexity of God. This document, or any portion thereof, may not be reproduced without the written permission of the author.