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Rav Yaakov Kaminetzky, zt”l, is quoted as saying that we must bring up all of our children as if they will speak with the Shechinah. Therefore, this stringency applies to the parents of every child.

I heard in the name of Rav Leib Bakst, zt”l, whose yahrzeit was this week (14 Teves), that Moshe Rabbenu lived before Mattan Torah, at which time the stringency not to nurse from non-Jewish women was only reserved for those few who were destined to speak with the Shechinah. However, after Mattan Torah, we all speak with the Shechinah on a daily basis. Therefore, the Rema codified this stringency for all of Klal Yisrael

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Rabbi Raphael Fuchs
Rabbi Fuchs learned in Yeshivas Toras Moshe, where he became a close talmid of Rav Michel Shurkin, shlit”a. While he was there he received semicha from Rav Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, shlit”a. He then learned in Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn, and became a close talmid of Rav Shmuel Berenbaum, zt”l. Rabbi Fuchs received semicha from the Mirrer Yeshiva as well. After Rav Shmuel’s petira Rabbi Fuchs learned in Bais Hatalmud Kollel for six years. He is currently a Shoel Umaishiv in Yeshivas Beis Meir in Lakewood, and a Torah editor and weekly columnist at The Jewish Press.