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When the pain is unbearable, we know that it’s only Hashem’s existence and mercy that can fill that void, that “makom”
Nothing. Please nothing.
I remember sitting shivah for my father 16 years ago. I was 11 years old. We were 13 children, most of us unmarried, the youngest two months old. It wasn’t an easy shivah to attend. People came and said some of the stupidest things I’ve heard in my life. I remember one mashpia who called me on the phone and exclaimed, “Chaim Ozer, mazal tov!”
“What for?” I asked, taken aback.
“You got a new father,” he answered.
Chaim-ozerReb-motteleசெய்ம்-ஓஜெர்Rav Dovid Kamenetsky brings Rav Chaim Ozer Grodzenski to life. “Everything we have today, the entire yeshivah world, is from Rav Chaim Ozer”
Photos: Eli Cobin, Personal Archives
Walking into Rav Dovid Kamenetsky’s Har Nof apartment, I’m immediately struck by the resemblance to his father, Rav Shmuel, whose picture adorns the living room wall along with a photo of his grandfather, Rav Yaakov. My conversation with this modest talmid chacham, who is also a self-made scholarly historian, shows me just how much his life’s work has been influenced by his illustrious father and grandfather.
The atmosphere that permeated the Kamenetsky home, relates Reb Dovid, instilled a deep connection to Jewish history along with a sense of pride in the rich legacy of the Litvish mesorah.
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