The inquiry was about Yeshivas Knesses Beis Yitzchok, which more than 40 years earlier had been located in the Kovno suburb of Slabodka
The final request called forth the pure faith of Lelov, the fire of Karlin and the emunah of Jerusalem of old
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks had a bewildering array of titles, but his greatest title of all was Rabbi — because more than anything, he shared the Divine light of Torah with the world
Though he was attracted by the New World offer, old age and other factors prevented the Malbim from taking the position
Rav Shlomo Hoffman spent the better part of a century uncovering the layers of the neshamah and left his tools as a gift to the world
Answering the call was a young, ambitious scion of the Alter of Slabodka named Eliyahu Meir Finkel
