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“You got your life as a gift, and you come here with complaints?”

Rav Rosen was a prize talmid of Rav Chaim Leib Tiktinsky in Mir and the Netziv in Volozhin

Rebbe Yisrael Hager of Vizhnitz had company — 44 boys, all of whom have lost their fathers

Rav Aharon refused to walk to the front, knowing it would cause a stir and interrupt the hesped

Connected by the shared gift, father and son recited Tehillim together

For 56 years, Rav Tzvi Hirsch Grodzenski led Omaha’s growing Orthodox immigrant community