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RABBI Nosson Mashgiach From a ,} 1 Previous Generation'~#> RABBI NossoN"' WACHTFOGEL ?"tr · Back in 1987, Chai Lifeline ran a single health support program servicing eight families. Today, more than 3,000 seriously ill children and their families are assisted through our wide array of programs and services. An internationally renowned health organiza­ We have, indeed, come a long way in the last tion with regional offices throughout twelve years. But we haven't done it the United States, Israel and alone. From the very beginning, Europe, Chai Lifeline today Chai Lifeline has enjoyed maintains a large network the support and encourage­ offree health support ment of compassionate services that provides individuals - people invaluable practical, like you - who share psychological and emo­ our commitment to tional assistance to helping children strick· more than 3,000 seri­ en with cancer or othe1 ously ill Jewish children life-threatening illnesse. and their families. Our have as normal and outstanding professional happy a childhood as staff has earned the acclaim possible. With their of doctors, hospitals and ongoing assistance, we can health organizations, and the look forward to continued services of our dedicated volunteer growth, enabling us to help more corps are in demand in major medical children and more families in ·even institutions throughout the world. more comprehensive ways. Fighting Illness With Love. 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A LIFE OF KEDUSHA position, they deemed it in young Nosson Even those of us who were privileged to Meir's best interest to remain in Europe. be among the thousands oftalmidim ofthe At age 15, Nosson Meir rejoined his par­ esteemed Mashgiach of Beth Medrash Sacred Roots ents in North America, and went to New Govoha in Lakewood, Rabbi Nasson Meir York to study at Yeshiva Rabbeinu Wachtfogel, did not really know him. b Nosson was born on 9 Adar I, Yitzchak Elchanan, then situated in Man­ Yes - we learned much from his 670 (1910) in the small town of hattan's Lower East Side, the most promi­ shmuessen (ethical discourses), even more ru uh!, Lithuania, where his father, nent yeshiva gedola in America at that time, from hisva'adim (small discussion groups), Rabbi Moshe Yorn Tov Wachtfogel, was where outstanding gedolei Torah, such as and - most of all - from his shining per­ rav. The elder Rabbi Wachtfogel - a dis­ Rabbi Shimon Shkop, would give shiurim. sonal example. Yes - we sought and ben­ ciple of the Alter of Slobodka -was one In the Yeshiva, Nosson Meir met and efited greatly from his sage counsel. But, of the first fourteen students ofYeshiva Etz befriended other future Torah luminaries because he strove with all his might his Chaim in Slutzk (the forerunner of the including Rabbi Moshe Bick, Rabbi Yehu­ entire lifetime to conceal his true abilities yeshivas of Kletzk and Lakewood) head­ da Davis (Rosh Yeshiva of Mountaindale ), and deeds, we could not possibly plumb the ed by Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer. When and \Yrb:t> Rabbi Avigdor Miller 1<"\:l"n>. depths or scale the heights of his greatness. Reb Isser Zalman was away, Reb Moshe Rabbi Bick - who later emerged as an out­ And now that he is no longer with us Yorn Tov would deliver the shiur in his standing ravand poseik-testified that Reb (having passed away on 2 Kislev this year), stead. Nosson had been the only one among we will never be able to do so. Nosson Meir attended the Yeshiva them who truly understood tl1e profound Nevertheless, we would do well to study Ketana in Kelm, where - together with shiurim of the Meitchetzer illui (genius), what is known to us about the life and ideal.s the future Rosh Yeshiva of Telshe, Rabbi Rabbi Shlomo Polachek. of this spiritual giant. Chaim Stein t<""\:l"n> - he studied under the great mussar figure, Rabbi Elya Lop­ A Fitting Portent Heshy Arem of BrookJyn is a forn1er tah11id of ian, author of Lev Eliyahu. Beth Medrash Govoha. His most recent contri­ When Rabbi Moshe Yorn 1bv and his hen the yeshiva later incor­ bution to JO was a biographical sketch of Rabbi rebbetzin moved to Montreal in the early porated college-level secular Yitzchok Isbee 7"Yr (Sept. '98). l 920's to assume a prestigious rabbinical W studies into its program, Nos- The Jewish Observer, April 1999 5 va. After looking over these semichos, revealing: A man related that he had Reb Boruch Ber told Nosson Meir, once left his watch on a window sill in "These will never do. I will write you the Yeshiva. Many years later, he came an even more glowing onel" back to Kehn and found the watch in the (In later years, the Mashgiach was exact same place! asked what Reb Boruch Ber had writ­ Reb Nosson remained in Kelm for ten in the semicha. Reb Nosson respond­ three years, studying primarily under ed that he did not know; he had never Rabbi Daniel Movoshovitz. Toward the read it! When asked if the Mashgiach end of that period, he became engaged wasn't curious as to the wording of the to Chava Slomowitz - a graduate of semicha, Reb Nosson explained, "Why Sarah Schenirer's Teacher's Seminary in should I look at it? I know who I real­ Cracow - who shared his burning ide­ ly am!") alism for Torah. She was the daughter Reb Boruch Ber then called togeth­ of Rabbi Yisroel Zalman Slomowitz, Rav The Mashgiach with Rabbi Shneur Kotler <;in~ (Photo: Fred Eckhouse, Chicago) er his grandchildren and asked Nosson of the town of Geniendz, a highly Meir to bless them .... The young Amer­ regarded talmid chacham. ican bachur humbly assumed that Reb As the clouds of war darkened over son Meir boldly protested the move to Boruch Ber merely intended to make Europe, Reb Nosson realized it was time the administration. He then convinced him feel good. En route to Montreal, Reb to return to America.
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