yankel > he answered that that they are �after all , baalei mussar �.
funny, thanks!
There is a story about one R Salanter’s dvar Torah. He would usually post maarei makamos on the door before the speech. So, someone who did not like mussar that much changed that message to different sources. R Salanter was standing quiet for several minutes and then started speaking using the posted sources. Someone who noticed tiold him after – this is real gaonus that it took you just several minutes to come up with the speech according to new sources. Oh, no, he answered – I spent those several minutes pondering whether speaking to the new sources would be a sign of gaavah. If it were, then I would have just left the bimah.