A Commentary for People of Lesser Stature

In a letter to the Gaon and tzaddik Rav Eliyahu Guttmacher, the Rav of Greiditz, who wished to see his work on the Torah, Rav Yaakov Tzvi wrote: "The Rav's great desire to see my work on the Torah is in my opinion inappropriate, for it is not intended for a Gaon such as himself, but for people of lesser stature, for it seeks to repair the breach of ungodliness that has the audacity to ascribe falsehood to our teachers, the Sages of the Oral Law. I thank Hashem that this explanation [given by my commentary] pleased our brothers in Poland and Russia. I have heard that in certain communities, instructors now teach it to young boys, and that in certain places a person has been placed in the beis medrash to explain the parsha of the week with this commentary every Shabbos. May the study of Torah return to all its initial glory. However for the Gaon, this commentary is useless."