As the shloshim of Rabbi Ovadiah Dubin, z”l, approaches, two of his daughters, Goldie Minkowitz and Aliza Rabinowitz of Teaneck, wish to share the words of tribute composed by two of Rabbi Dubin’s grandchildren, which so eloquently detail the 98-year life of a talmid chacham who shared his wisdom with talmidim of all backgrounds for over 75 years: Early Years In September of 1929, as the United States was slipping into the Great Depression, R’ Yisroel Eliyahu Dubin, an upholsterer by trade, made a decision to leave Philadelphia and move to New York in order to enroll his son in yeshiva.