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Rav Dovid had the bearing of an old-school baal mussar and a master educator

He possessed an ability to “get things done” 

“These are now our children, the children of the entire Jewish nation”

With Rav Pruskin’s appointment as rabbi of the town in 1924, the yeshivah began to enjoy the support of the local population and subsequently grew in numbers and prestige Title: Raising Rav Aharon Leib Location:  Kobryn, Poland Document: Kobryn Yeshivah Roster Time: 1931   The shtetl of Kobryn in the Brisk district enjoyed a rich

He did not believe that American yeshivah youth were any less yirei Shomayim than their Eastern European counterparts

Though the city of Chadera eventually developed a secular character, in the 1960s a branch of the Novardok yeshivah opened in Chadera