This Motzaei Shabbos, 29 Taives, markes the 63rd yahrtzeit of Rav Aryeh Leib Malin zt”l, While many know him as the founder of Beis HaTalmud in Brooklyn, fewer appreciate the pivotal role he played in one of the greatest rescue operations of the Holocaust: the escape of the entire Mirrer Yeshiva from Nazi-occupied Europe.
His Rebbetzin, Yaffa a”h, once reflected that attempting to portray his character presents an unusual challenge: “There are no ‘stories.’ A great man without ‘stories’—is it possible? Yet, that is indeed the truth. His was a wondrous character that is difficult to describe because it defies description.” What emerges from examining his life, however, is a portrait of a man who lived and breathed Torah with every fiber of his being—and who, at the most critical moment in Jewish history, rose to save an entire world […]
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