Don’t Mess With Brisk! (I Mean BREAD…)

The following story is almost utterly worthless in itself (I don’t know the source), but the point is the story was taken seriously, and it influenced people’s thinking.

A generally serious Torah scholar told me he heard someone once came to the Brisker Rav to tell him about a kashrus problem with bakeries. So, what was the response of the Brisker Rav, known for his Yir’as Shamayim (except wherever halacha conflicted with so-called holy “Minhag”)?

He said: Don’t mess with bread!

As they say, “I don’t know if it happened, but they don’t tell such “inspiring” stories about the Chazon Ish…”