It’s been five years since the passing of Rosh Yeshivah Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ztz”l, yet striving for growth and determination against the odds has become his enduring legacy
He pressed his talmidim to work harder, learn longer, to push themselves and never give up. It’s been five years since the passing of Rosh Yeshivah Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel ztz”l, but could the 8,000-strong army he created still march forward? Yet that striving for growth and determination against the odds is his enduring legacy, his indomitable spirit alive in every corner
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n Monday evening, 11 Cheshvan 2011, the Rosh Yeshivah was on a conference call, discussing plans for an upcoming fundraising trip to the United States.
After he hung up, he welcomed some talmidim into his dining room. This was also the living room and study and unofficial office, the place where he met new bochurim, delivered chaburos and shmuessen, led administrative meetings. Most of all, it was where he learned, and on that evening, bochurim came to speak in learning as well.
He wasn’t feeling great, but it had been many years since he’d felt well. He pushed off exhaustion and made another phone call, reaching then Shas leader Eli Yishai. The Rosh Yeshivah thanked him for accommodating the request of various roshei kollel to arrange a discount on the municipal property tax for avreichim. “It’s a tremendous load off my heart,” Rav Nosson Tzvi told him.
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