“How do I know this?I was that girl. My mother always wanted me to be perfect, in a way that she defined as perfect”
I want to commend Riki Goldstein on the wonderful article on Rabbi Kreiswirth.
Rabbi Kreiswirth’s focus on Torah and chesed remains an inspiration for us all, and we have again been reminded of the tremendous zechus we had for him to have graced our city of Chicago.
Though Rabbi Kreiswirth was invited to the yeshivah under the recommendation of Chief Rabbi Herzog, it appears that his arrival in America was to assist in the publication of a commentary on the entire Yerushalmi. I had always wondered what happened to this work and why it was never published. Perhaps this is the lost manuscript mentioned in the article.
I do want to point out one small error: During Rabbi Kreiswirth’s time, the yeshivah was still located on Douglas Boulevard in the West Side of Chicago. The yeshivah moved to its current campus in Skokie in 1958.
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