Each grandfather looked at the other. They both felt they had been wronged by the other
Everyone was silent as the bar mitzvah bochur approached the shtender. Yanky was the final speaker of the evening.
Both families were choshuve mishpachos with a long line of yichus behind them.
Yanky’s paternal grandfather was well known not only as a lamdan, but he was also a pikeiach, a person of insight. Bochurim came to him for eitzos and hadrachah.
His maternal grandfather was heralded as a baki b’Shas and known to have finished the Daf Yomi cycle five times.
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