Just hours before he passed away with all his children gathered around him Rav Yisroel Grossman instructed Rebbetzin Nussbaum to look in the pocket of his jacket. Inside were three $100 bills — an unusually large sum for her father. “Use it to marry off the girls” he told her
I t was a request that would change her life.
In 2007 Rav Yitzchak Dovid Grossman called his sister with a dilemma. Graduation was around the corner. The girls — many of whom were orphans or from severely deprived backgrounds — were welcome to stay in Migdal Ohr indefinitely and benefit from the higher education programs he’d established. But they needed to be shepherded into the world.
It would be better for them to “leave home” to study. Of course when they had some kind of qualification they would need to be guided through shidduchim. Then they would need to be married off…
While he took care of marrying off the alumni bochurim Rav Grossman needed a counterpart to take care of the girls. The task Rav Grossman presented to his sister was crucial — and one that required the utmost delicacy.
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