Shanghai to Telz to Baltimore: Chaya Milevsky’s Life Story
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zt”l, a
musmach
of Ner Israel yeshiva, was the former Chief Rabbi of Mexico and
founder/lecturer at Ohr Somayach Toronto. Chaya shared her incredible life
story with me.
My paternal
grandfather was a big Rav, first in Germany and then in England. My father,
Rabbi Hillel Mannes,
zt”l, was considered intellectual and went to
university in Bavaria. He was in the middle of writing a thesis on “The Talmud
and Freud’s Psychoanalysis” when he found a sign on the university door, one