He did not believe that American yeshivah youth were any less yirei Shomayim than their Eastern European counterparts
This Friday, 15 Kislev marks the 80th Yahrtzeit of Rav Dovid Leibowitz
Upon Rav Dovid’s passing, a moving tribute appeared in Orthodox Youth, the mouthpiece of Zeirei Agudath Yisrael. Though the byline simply read “A talmid,” it was well known that the writer was Rav Avrohom Yaakov Pam
December 7, 1941, “a date which will live in infamy,” was to be forever associated with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entry of the United States into World War II.
But for a large group of mourners converging on Mount Judah cemetery in Queens for the burial of Rav Dovid Leibowitz, it was to be a date that left a gaping spiritual void for America’s nascent Torah community. The untimely passing three days prior of this pioneering rosh yeshivah, still in his early fifties, was a setback to his efforts of transplanting the Torah of Slabodka and Radin to America.
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