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Rav Auerbach spent the next two years traversing the continent at a pace and depth that would make Lewis and Clark gasp

Rabbi Yitzchok Lowenbraun, or Reb Itchie as he was affectionately called, wasn’t just a rebbi for his students — he was a father. He and his wife, Rebbetzin Miriam Lowenbraun a”h, changed the lives of hundreds, if not thousands, of public school youth and their families

Why, asked Rav Sternbuch, was Rabi Yochanan worried

“They cried! And that makes all the difference”

Torah, it is taught, is itself the greatest form of chesed

The bochurim who showed him that, even under difficult circumstances, Torah learning must go on