PERSPECTIVES → INBOX Issue 1045 · January 15, 2025

Inbox: Issue 1045

“Please know, my dear sisters, that your children’s struggle can never be explained by any ingredients”

Inbox: Issue 1045
The Final Page [In Sights / Issue 1043]

I have never received as many emails, phone calls, and texts regarding any piece I’ve written for this series as I did for this last installment, titled “With His Boots On.” And I’ve never before added a postscript, but I must do so for this one.

Many talmidim of both Rav Henoch Leibowitz and Rav Scheinberg zichronam livrachah contacted me to tell me how my recollections of these gedolim’s incredible drive to keep going until the very last breath was something they also observed.

But what I want to share is what I learned from from my dear chaver, Reb Yussie Stern, who told me the original story featured about Rav Scheinberg renewing his passport and opting for the passport book with more pages, even though he was over 90 years old. He added an important postscript to the story that I must share.

A little more than a decade later, when the Rosh Yeshivah passed away, his son Rav Simcha shlita showed Yussie that the last entry stamp in the passport was on the very last page.

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