Every person is unique, with special strengths and gifts. Can you sing, play a musical instrument, draw, act, or speak well? Here are four stories of kids and adults with unique talents and how those skills saved them and the lives of others
Tovy Mann
Name: Reb Meyer Rosengarten
Country: Toronto
Era: Postwar
Talent: Singing
Meyer and his brothers grew up in Toronto, Canada. There were no yeshivas in Toronto then, so they attended public school, where their classmates laughed at the weird Jewish kids sporting shaved heads, long curly peyos, tzitzis over their shirts, and homemade woolen britches and socks.
It was not fun for the three brothers to be different, but their father refused to compromise on any aspect of their Jewish identity.
Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky was the rav in the shul where the family davened. “Send the boys to New York to learn in a yeshiva,” he advised their father.
So in 1945, Itche, Shimon and Meyer Rosengarten left home and moved to Williamsburg, where they learned in Yeshivas Torah Vodaath and lived in the yeshiva dormitory, not far from where their married brother Shmil lived.
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