Must see and hear 🎵♪🎵the Gevaldig happening:
24 June 2026
Massive Convoy to Descend Upon Military Prison 10
Thousands of motorists from across Eretz Yisroel are expected to participate Wednesday afternoon in a massive convoy protest calling for the release of imprisoned bnei yeshiva and an end to the arrest of Bnei Torah.
Organizers say convoys will depart simultaneously at 4:00 p.m. from 19 locations nationwide and travel toward Military Prison 10 in what they describe as a united demonstration on behalf of “the prisoners of the Torah world.”
The protest has received backing from several Chareidi groups, including the Eida Chareidis and the Peleg Yerushalmi. Reports indicate that calls to participate have also been issued by various Chassidic courts. Organizers say the goal of the demonstration is to demand the immediate release of all imprisoned bnei yeshiva, an end to what they describe as the persecution of Torah learners, and the cancellation of all measures targeting yeshiva students and their families.
According to organizers, thousands of drivers have already registered for the event, overwhelming the protest’s registration hotline and temporarily causing technical outages due to the unusually high volume of calls.
Participants have been instructed to decorate their vehicles with signs and flags, while volunteers will be stationed at departure points to assist. Organizers also urged all drivers to join an internal updates line, through which any route changes or official instructions will be communicated.
The organizing committee stressed that the convoy has been coordinated with Israel Police and instructed participants to avoid confrontations with police or members of the public. Drivers have also been told not to block roads, to travel in the right lane at approximately 50 km/h while maintaining extra following distance, and to comply with police instructions throughout the event.
Because the convoy could last several hours, participants have been advised to bring water, food, full tanks of gas, and seforim or other appropriate reading material for any extended delays.
Police are expected to closely monitor the demonstration, with significant traffic disruptions anticipated on major highways throughout the afternoon and evening.
23 June 2026
🔥לא נכנעים! המנהיג הרב לנדו מצהיר בעוז: רודפים אותנו אבל אנחנו בכל אופן לומדים
בראשות מנהיג הדור רבינו מרן שליט"א נערך דינר מיוחד בבית הרב עזרא דוויד, במרכזו נשא דברים מנהיג הדור רבינו מרן שליט"א:
באנו מארץ ישראל. המצב קשה מאוד, של עולם התורה שם, הישיבות והכוללים, וכל ההתנהגות של השלטונות, של הערכאות שם, ועם כל התקציבים שעצרו שם – רודפים אותנו, את כל מי שלומד תורה. אבל אנחנו בכל אופן לומדים, לומדים ועוסקים.
ואני רוצה לתת ברכה לבעל הבית, רבי עזרא דיויד, ולשותף שלו רבי בארי לבוביץ', שיחיו ויצליחו, וכל המשתתפים, בקרן עולם התורה – יבורכו ממיטב הברכות. אחינו בית ישראל, תושבי ארצות הברית היושבים כאן בעיר פאסייק, השם יברך אותם וייתן להם ממיטב הברכות, אמן.
ואשרי מי שתומך, תמכי דאורייתא – יבורך ממיטב הברכות. השם יעזור ונהיה במנוחה בלי טרדות, ובשלווה ובשקט ובסדר הלאה והלאה, עד ביאת משיח צדקנו במהרה בימינו, אמן ואמן."
🚨 "טאטאלע קום שוין אהיים!" • המשגיח פרץ בבכי והריקוד ההיסטורי בקווינס | Rav Dan Segal's Tears
התיעוד הבלעדי והמרטיט ממעמד האלפים ההיסטורי בעיר קווינס, ניו יורק: צפו בתיעוד מיוחד ומאוחד מתוך מעמד החירום המרכזי של "קרן עולם התורה" שנערך בישיבת "חפץ חיים" בקווינס, ארה"ב, בהשתתפות אלפי בני תורה, אברכים ובראשם מרנן ורבנן גדולי וגאוני הדור שליט"א. בחלקה הראשון של השיחה, בעת שירת ניגון הכיסופים והגעגועים לגאולה "טאטאלע קום שוין אהיים" (אבא, בוא כבר הביתה), נשנק המשגיח הגאון הצדיק רבי דן סגל שליט"א, בבכי תמרורים קורע לב וזעק את מילות השיר מתוך אמונה יוקדת, כשהוא סוחף עמו את אלפי המשתתפים. בחלקה השני של השיחה (החל מהדקה 01:49): רגעים יוצאי דופן של שמחה והתרוממות רוח, כאשר מרנן ורבנן גדולי וגאוני הדור שליט"א פוצחים בריקוד משותף וחם יחד עם אלפי המשתתפים לשירת "ולעורר לבי לאהבתך", מתוך תחושת חיבור ושותפות היסטורית להצלת הישיבות וכוללי האברכים בארץ ישראל. צילום: דניאל נפוסי. באדיבות "קרן עולם התורה" שבנשיאות מרן ראש הישיבה הגרמ"ה הירש שליט"א. --- English Translation: The official, complete, and moving footage from the historic mass assembly in Queens, New York: Watch a special, unified footage from the central emergency assembly of "Keren Olam HaTorah" held in Queens, NY, at Yeshivat "Chofetz Chaim," with the participation of thousands of Yeshiva students, Kollel scholars, and led by the generation's prominent Torah giants shlit"a. In the first part of this video, during the singing of the famous song of spiritual yearning, "Tatele, Kum Shoyn Aheim" (Father, come home already), the leader of hearts, Maran HaMashgiach HaGaon HaTzaddik Rabbi Dan Segal shlit"a, choked back tears, sobbing deeply in front of thousands of participants. In the second part of the footage (starting at 01:49): Extraordinary moments of joy and spiritual elevation, as the generation's prominent Torah giants shlit"a erupt into a warm, joint dance with the thousands of participants, singing "U'le'orer Libi L'ahavatecha" (To awaken my heart to Your love). This beautiful moment represents the historic partnership to save the yeshivas in Israel. Videography: Daniel Nafousi. Courtesy of "Keren Olam HaTorah", under the presidency of Maran Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit"a.
“This Is What Awaits a Police Officer Who Kicks A Ben Torah”
In his popular weekly shiur, HaGaon HaRav Daniel Zer, the Rosh Yeshiva of the Ohr Dovid yeshiva in Bnei Brak, addressed the scenes from last week’s Peleg Yerushalmi protest, during which police officers acted with disproportionate violence and carried out deliberate acts of humiliation by tearing off protesters’ pants—unprecedented acts that have never been seen at any other protest.
“A Chareidi protest—the police beat them cruelly with batons, tore off their clothes,” HaRav Zer said. “A terrible busha. If they had done this to the Kaplan protesters, the entire State would have gone crazy. But it’s a mitzva to beat the Chareidim.”
“These police officers think the world is hefker,” HaRav Zer continued. “To raise batons and strike Bnei Torah? Anyone who harms a Ben Torah—Hashem Yeracheim—they’re kofrim b’ikar. They will suffer in this world as well—there’s no kaparah for humiliating talmidei chachamim.”
“I’ll tell you a story—the police officers should listen. A known Mekubal recounted a story about a Jew from Tzfas, a talmid chacham and Yirei Shamayim, who came to him weeping and told him this story. His father, known as a tzaddik, passed away 15 years earlier and was buried in Chutz L’Eretz, where he lived.”
Fifteen years after his death, his sons, who were residing in Israel, decided to bring his body to Israel for reburial. When the kever was opened, those present were astonished to discover that while the rest of his body had remained completely intact, his right leg had been consumed by worms.”
“The sons were astonished. Their father was a tzaddik, and as is known, the bodies of tzaddikim are not affected by worms.
“That night, the father appeared to his son in a dream, radiant and glowing, and said ‘Why are you crying?’ The son responded: ‘Abba, you were a great tzaddik. Why was your right leg consumed?’
His father responded: ‘Know that Heavenly judgment is true judgment. I once kicked a Ben Torah with that leg.'”
HaRav Zer continued: “And this was punishment for a tzaddik, a Yira Shamayim. These police officers commit every sin in the world. What awaits them in the next world?!”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
A Friday walk from central Jerusalem to Jaffa Gate
Friday in Jerusalem! The best day in the city before Shabbat. Mahane Yehuda and City center
22 June 2026
🔥השמאלנים ירצו להפטר מהמשיח: צפו בנאום דרמטי ממרן ראש הישיבה רבי ברוך דב פוברסקי בפני אלפי התלמידים
במרכז מעמד נעילת החג בישיבת פוניבז' בהשתתפות אלפי התלמידים כמסורת פוניבז' מידי צאת החג, הביא רבינו מרן ראש הישיבה הגרב"ד פוברסקי שליט"א בערגה דברים ששמע מרשכבה"ג מרנא ורבנא הרב מבריסק זיע"א על תקופת ביאת המשיח, הבכי של הרב מבריסק, ותגובת הבת הקטנה. בדבריו ביאר ראש הישיבה את המדרש, ואמר כי השמאל וכל הרשעים ילחמו במשיח, והמשיח יגלה למדבר יהודה, ואח"כ יבוא התקופה המרגשת תקופת המשיח. קרדיט תיעוד: שיא לייב, גרובייס
רבי משולם דוד סולובייציק זצ"ל על מרן רבינו עובדיה יוסף זצוק"ל - בפגישה עם הרב בן שושן שליט"א
צופים יקרים: הקליקו "הירשם כמנוי" ואחר כך לחצו על הפעמון, ואז תהיו המעודכנים הראשונים בכל סרטון חדש שעולה ליוטיוב ! נו, לא כדאי להירשם ? אז הירשמו עכשיו ✔ 🔔 לפניכם הצעות מערכת המדיה של מוסדות "אור יצחק" 🔔 📌 לאתר הרשמי לחצו על: https://turhmje.blogspot.com/ 📌 הצטרפות אונליין לעדכוני מוסדות "אור יצחק" דרך המייל ◄ 34567831w@gmail.com 📌 לתרומות למוסדות "אור יצחק" חייג ◄ 0527149145 📌 להזמנת הרב יניב עזיז לאזכרות ושיעורים שלחו בקשה במייל ◄ 34567831w@gmail.com 📌 לשאלות בהלכה באימייל ◄ 34567831w@gmail.com 📌 לקניית ספרי הרב יניב עזיז חייג ◄ 0527149145 📌 לקניית ספרי מרן הרב יצחק יוסף חייג ◄ 0527149145 🔔 פעילות מוסדות "אור יצחק" בראשות הגאון הרב יניב עזיז שליט"א 🔔 ✔ בית כנסת ובית מדרש ✔ ישיבה גדולה - ברכת שמואל ✔ כולל אברכים - נזר משה ✔ עלונים תורניים בתפוצה ארצית ✔ מכירת וחלוקת ספרי קודש ✔ שיעורים והרצאות ברחבי הארץ ✔ חסד לבני תורה ✔ קירוב לבבות ✔ ייעוץ והכוונה ✔ מענה לשאלות בהלכה
🚨 "זה לא רק גדול הדור - זה אבא שלנו!" • התרגשות ראשי הכוללים במעונו של מרן הגרמ"ה הירש 😭
דבריו המרטיטים והכואבים של ראש הכולל במעונו של מנהיג הדור: צפו בתיעוד בלעדי (עם כיתבויות), תיעוד דומע ומרגש מדבריו של ראש כולל "בית הלל", הגאון רבי יוסף מן שליט"א, שנשא במעמד "צאתכם לשלום" של ראשי הכוללים במעונו של מנהיג הדור מרן ראש הישיבה הגאון רבי משה הלל הירש שליט"א. בדבריו הכואבים, הגר"י מן שליט"א מתאר את תחושותיהם של אלפי אברכי הכוללים בארץ ישראל לנוכח הרדיפות, הגזירות והקשיים הכלכליים, ומבטא הערכה עצומה למסירות הנפש הפלאית של מרן ראש הישיבה למענם: "אנחנו מרגישים שיש לנו אב זקן. זה לא רק גדול הדור, אלא זה אבא שמוסר את נפשו לכולנו... זה מאוד מחזק אותנו כשאנחנו חשים את זה". צפו בדבריו המרגשים של ראש הכולל ממעונו של מרן הגרמ"ה הירש שליט"א. --- English Translation: The moving and painful address of the Rosh Kollel at the home of the leader of the generation: Watch the emotional footage of the address delivered by the Rosh Kollel of "Beis Hillel," HaGaon Rabbi Yosef Mann shlit"a, during the farewell assembly of Roshei Kollelim at the home of the leader of the generation, Maran Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlit"a. In his painful remarks, Rabbi Mann shlit"a describes the feelings of thousands of Kollel scholars in Israel in the face of the ongoing persecutions, draft decrees, and financial hardships. He expresses immense gratitude for the wondrous self-sacrifice of Maran Rosh Yeshiva on their behalf: "We feel like we have an elderly father. It is not just a leader of the generation, but a father who gives up his soul for all of us... It strengthens us immensely when we feel this." Courtesy of "Keren Olam HaTorah
🏛️ לראשונה במסע ההיסטורי: ראש ישיבת פוניבז' הגרח"פ ברמן במשא מפתיע בבורו פארק למה רודפים את הישיבות
נאום הבכורה ההיסטורי ⏱️ | "הקדוש ברוך הוא דופק לכם בדלת בפעמון!" • המשא המרטיט של ראש ישיבת פוניבז' הגרח"פ ברמן שליט"א בבורו פארק (תיעוד בלעדי - עם כיתוביות בעברית). לפניכם התיעוד המלא והרשמי מנאום הבכורה ההיסטורי והסוחף של הגאון רבי חיים פרץ ברמן שליט"א, מראשי ישיבת פוניבז', שהצטרף לראשונה למסע החירום הדרמטי של "קרן עולם התורה" (שבנשיאות מרן הגרמ"ה הירש שליט"א) בארצות הברית. בנאומו המפתיע שנשא בדינר סגור בבורו פארק (ברוקלין), הציג הגרח"פ ברמן מבט אמוני ומצמרר על גזירות הגיוס והקיצוצים בארץ הקודש, כשהוא משתמש במשל נפלא משיר השירים: "קול דודי דופק, יהודים יקרים הקב"ה דופק לכם בדלת בפעמון ואומר: תראו מה קורה כאן, פתחי לי אחותי רעייתי! מה עם הילדים שלי?". צפו בתיעוד המלא. The official, full-length video of the historic debut address delivered by Hagaon Rav Chaim Peretz Berman shlit"a, one of the Roshei Yeshiva of Ponevezh, who joined the emergency campaign of "Keren Olam HaTorah" in the United States for the first time. Speaking at an exclusive dinner in Boro Park (Brooklyn), Rav Berman delivered a deeply moving and inspiring message on the yeshiva crisis in Israel, using a beautiful metaphor from Shir HaShirim: "The voice of my beloved knocks! Hashem is knocking on your door, ringing the bell, saying: Look what is happening here, open to me my sister, my love! What about my children?". Watch the full historic address. --- 📖 תמליל השיחה המלא (Full Transcript):
מה המסר שלמד הרב אזרחי מהמנהיג הרב לנדו במסע ההסטורי למען עולם התורה? גדו"י בסוד שיח בנעילת המסע
אחרי הדינר בבית הנדיב הרב משה פשרהרפר, מרן ר"י מיר האון הגדול רבי יצחק אזרחי שליט"א שוחח עם מנהיג הדור רבינו מרן שליט"א הנכד: הוא הצטרף מיום ראשון למסע. הוא היה היה בפלורידה איפה שלא היינו, אבל אתמול הוא היה איתנו בקווינס. רבינו שמע בהנאה וברך: ה' יעזור שנצליח הראש ישיבה: אני רוצה להגיד משהו שלמדתי מכם. יש בגמרא בדף ו' עמוד ב'... הנכד: איפה? באיזה מסכת? הראש ישיבה: בברכות. הגמרא אומרת, שכשראיתי שהם גם רצים בשבת, אמרתי שתלמידי חכמים מחללים שבת. אז אמר לא, כתוב "נלכה נרדפה לדעת את ה'". מה ההווא אמינא ומה המסקנה? ההווא אמינא הייתה, שזה הידור, שזה דקדוק, אז זה לא עושים על חשבון שבת, המסקנה היא מה שלמדנו מהרב'ה, מה שלמדנו מכם עכשיו, שמיד בהתחלה צריכים להיות "נלכה ונרדפה". זה תנאי מיד בהתחלה! אם לא מתחילים ככה, לא יהיה כלום! רבינו: תודה רבה לך שאתה מזכיר לי. הראש ישיבה: לא, אבל זה מציאות! זה למדנו מכם. שהכל בבת אחת, מיד! שהכל מיד, לא לחכות, "נלכה נרדפה" – ככה לומדים, ככה מתפללים, ככה מתקרבים אל בורא עולם, ככה הקדוש ברוך הוא מקרב אותנו אליו. זה מה שלמדתי אני, מאז שבאתי, מגדול הדור. רבינו: ה' יעזור ה' יתן לכם כל טוב מכל הבחינות ונזכה כולנו לגאולה בקרוב בקרוב.
הראש ישיבה: אבל אנחנו רוצים הכל ביחד רק איתכם.
איחוד של קדושה: תיעוד מסכם - גדולי ראשי הישיבות בכינוס חסר תקדים למען עולם התורה
The REAL LIONS at any age, with vigor for Hashem and Torah
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נקודות עיקריות מהכינוס ההיסטורי של קרן עולם התורה בבית גבריאל בקווינס ביום שלישי האחרון
בהשתתפות מרן רבי יצחק אזרחי, מרן רבי אברהם סלים, מרן רבי יעקב הלל, הגאון רבי אשר וייס, ורבי יוסף חברוני
בין הרבנים המקומיים שנכחו היו יו"ר ראשי ישיבות חפץ, הרב דוד האריס והרב עקיבא גרינבלט; הרב דניאל לנדר, ראש ישיבת אור החיים; הרב נח יצחק אולבוים, רב קהילת נחלות יצחק; הרב הראשי של הקהילה הבוכרית הרב יצחק ישראלי; יחד עם רבנים ובני תורה בולטים רבים אחרים.
Rav Gustman zt"l: The Youngest Dayan of Vilna....
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I saw this link at yeranenyaakov. This is about a very famous Rav, established the Shul – Beis Medrash that my Husband is a member, and where I daven. The Rav zt’l is no longer with us, but his daughter, the Rebbetzen of the present Rav of the Shul, Rabbi Berniker is very much with us. Therefore, I herewith present an article written by David Page for Matzav.com.
Rav Gustman: “I Fulfilled the Mitzvah of Mechiyas Zecher Amalek With My Bare Hands”
On the eve of our reading Parshas Zachor, there are few Jews today who can say that they merited to fulfill the Mitzvah of Mechiyas Zecher Amalek even in a small way. Yet there are many alive today who knew such a person personally and who learned from him: Until twenty-five years ago, one of the greatest Torah scholars and Dayanim of his generation used to say that he himself had fulfilled that Mitzvah, even among the horrors of the Holocaust in Europe. The Torah scholar was Rav Yisrael Ze’ev Gustman, ZT”L, the last Dayan of pre-War Vilna and the great Rosh Yeshiva after the War.
Rav Gustman indeed had survived as the only pre-War Dayan of Rav Chaim Ozer Gradzhensky’s Beis Din in Vilna. The Nazis Y”S rounded up all the members of the Rabbinical Court when they marched into Lithuania on the 16th of Sivan, 5700, and then on the night of the 17th of Tammuz systematically rounded up and murdered all the prominent rabbinic figures and dayanim in Vilna. Among those on their target list was Rav Gustman.
The Nazis took out the distinguished dayan, the star student of the great Rosh Yeshiva R’ Shimon Shkop ZT”L and the right-hand man of R’ Chaim Ozer Gradzhensky, into the courtyard in front of his home and beat him until his blood flowed, briefly leaving him for dead.
But he was only unconscious, and he managed to pick himself up and hide in the tall vegetation growing near his home. He shaved off his beard so as not to be identified and passed as a simple Jew. Soon thereafter, he and his family were rounded up and forced into the Vilna Ghetto, where he helped countless of his fellow Jews via acts of kindness, including sharing his meager rations with the elderly widow of R’ Chaim Ozer and ruling on many questions of life and death as a dayan.
Rav Gustman escaped together with his wife and daughter to the forest outside Vilna. There he sought to join the Jewish Partisans fighting the Nazis. But the condition of joining was to bring one’s own weapon, so Rav Gustman, who was immensely physically strong (and until the War had used his strength to aid him in his Torah studies and rabbinical duties), ambushed and killed a Nazi soldier, and took his weapon. He used to look down at his hands and relate, “I fulfilled the Mitzvah of Mechiyas Zecher Amalek with my bare hands.” He once saw an Israeli soldier disassembling and reassembling his rifle and said, “I know how to do it faster.” With very little food, Rav Gustman and his fellow partisans fought on until the end of the War. At one point, he split a single pea he found in the forest with his wife and daughter, relating that he found out at that time on just how little a person could survive.
When he was asked immediately after the War by the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of the State of Israel, Rav Yitzchak HaLevy Herzog, ZT”L, to explain the miracles (nisim) of survival that occurred during the War, he replied that in the context of such immense tragedy and catastrophe, it was incorrect to speak of miracles, but rather of “decrees” (gezeiros) of “who shall live, and who shall die.”
Yet Rav Gustman’s contribution to the fight against Amalek was not only physical, but also spiritual, in Amalek’s manifestation as the Gematria of safek, doubting the rule of G-d in the world and His Torah. First, in the Ghetto, Rav Gustman strengthened the faith of his fellow Jews, even those facing imminent death. He testified about himself that at no point did he lose his own faith in the Ribono shel Olam. He encouraged desperate people to hope, not to despair, and not to end their own lives, telling them that the War would soon end with the survival of the Jewish people. He himself related that he often had to encourage himself as well, so difficult were those days.
Among other unspeakable atrocities, Rav Gustman witnessed the murder of his own son, Meirke, whom the Nazis discovered in a makeshift hiding place. And after the War, Rav Gustman assisted in the rebuilding of the devastated Torah world, raising up a wealth of distinguished Talmidim and Dayanim both in America and Israel. He stressed the shlemus (integrated character development with Torah scholarship) of the person. He was infinitely patient, sitting with even the slowest students going over Sugyos in the Gemarra until they understood. Yet at the same time, he would recite from memory R’ Shimon Shkop’s shiurim and his own Kuntrasei Shiurim are a model of depth and clarity.
Yet R’ Gustman’s story is one that embodies hope for the Jewish people. He was not broken by his experiences, but deepened by them. He was a person of both deep Simcha and deep dedication to life in its fullest sense. In his approach, he provided a window into the pre-War Torah world for his students, both via his own learning and teaching and by relating stories of that world that inspired and challenged the students. One such story was that of his fellow Grodno student, R’ Moshe Zaretsky, ZT”L, subsequently the Rav of Karkur in Israel.
R’ Moshe, a powerfully built and tough-as-nails young man, came to Grodno at the age of 19. His parents were Jewish farmers and someone back home had told him that he would never become a Torah scholar. The young man had said, “Before you become a Torah scholar, hair will grow from your palms!” R’ Moshe was resolved to prove that assessment wrong. He asked the Steipler Gaon, R’ Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, who the best Rosh Yeshiva was, and the Steipler replied that R’ Shimon Shkop was the greatest Rosh Yeshiva in Lithuania. And so young Moshe traveled to Grodno to learn in the yeshiva there.
But when Moshe was tested, R’ Shimon felt that the boy was not sufficiently advanced in his studies and thus not yet prepared for the shiur in Grodno. R’ Shimon therefore did not admit the earnest young student; when that decision was transmitted to Moshe, the young man wept.
But young Moshe was not going to be deterred so easily. Even if he had not been accepted in the yeshiva, no one could deny him his right as a Jew to sit in the beis medrash. He resolved not to budge from that study hall and to learn without ceasing for one year. With the iron will of a powerful young man, it seemed as if he did not budge. He learned all day and all night, every day and every night, and in exhaustion he would fall asleep on his shtender in the wee hours of the morning.
Moshe had very little to eat since in Grodno — as in the rest of the Lithuanian yeshiva world at the time —even the registered students lived in relative poverty, often missing meals and going hungry. In Grodno, the students’ breakfast consisted of a slice of bread and a hot drink of some kind, nothing more. (There was a debate among the students as to whether this piece of bread should be eaten quickly so as to minimize enjoyment or whether it should be eaten very slowly to gain control over the innate animalistic appetite of a hungry person.)
But for Moshe, who had not yet been admitted as a student and had to make due with whatever scraps he managed to find around the study hall, the fare was even more meager. He had no hot beverages but instead drank from a barrel of water situated outside the study hall. That water was meant to be used for netilas yadayim, ritual hand-washing, but Moshe used the washing cup there as his drinking cup. The other students took pity on him, and although he could expect nothing from the yeshiva kitchen, they broke off portions of their own meager rations and gave them to him. This nutritional regimen fueled 18-20-hour days of study for Moshe, who came to be known by the nickname Moshe Masmid (Moshe the Diligent). When local physicians heard about his sleep and nutritional regimen, they opined that he could not survive for very long in that fashion.
But the Ribono shel Olam had different plans, and when the righteous women of Grodno heard about Moshe and his diet, they took great pity on the young man. They began to bring pots of hot food to the study hall for Moshe. In fact, he had the distinction of being one of the few students in all of the yeshiva world at that time to eat meat nearly every day. As the Rosh Yeshiva would relate with a smile, “He ate much better than we did.”
To the end of his life, Rav Gustman accorded R’ Moshe Zaretsky a privilege accorded to no one else other than himself: To say the weekly shiur in the Rav Gustman’s Yeshivas Netzach Yisrael.
Rav Gustman inspired his students to understand that the ultimate victory of the Jewish people was not to be deterred from achieving their potential to grow in closeness to Ribono shel Olam, via dedication to learning His Torah and by combining that dedication with attaining good traits of character (midos) and acts of kindness (gemilus chasadim).
In the merit of his example, may we merit to see the ultimate fulfillment of the Mitzvah of Mechiyas Zecher Amalek mi’Tachas HaShamayim and the establishment of G-d’s eternal rule in a rebuilt Jerusalem.
David Page is the author of Rav Gustman: The Youngest Dayan of Vilna and Illustrious Rosh Yeshiva in New York and Yerushalyim (Artscroll 5777). He lives with his wife and children in Jerusalem.
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