Ner Moshe’s Rav Avrohom Gurewitz was a guiding beacon through shifting generations
He attended Torah Vodaath and then Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Berlin. In 1958, at the advice of his father, he left New York to join Yeshivas Ponevezh. It was there that he met the man who would become his rebbi for life.
For decades to come, Rav Avrohom would speak about Rav Shach. He saw the world through the prism of his rebbi’s approach, clinging to the raw, unadorned, yet majestic spirituality of prewar Lithuania.
Rav Avrohom was resolutely independent, unaffected by any external feedback, whether positive or negative. The one exception was Rav Shach. He glowed when he shared memories of the deep affection Rav Shach had for him.
“Rav Shach sat in the back of the beis medrash, and bochurim often went over to speak with him in learning,” he would share. “A few weeks passed where I didn’t feel I had what to speak to him about. One day, he walks over to me in the beis medrash and says ‘Zeit broiges oif mir? Are you upset with me? Where have you been?’ ”
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