My Zionist Hagadah
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"You’ve got to get his family here ASAP and have them take achrayus"
"It’s just he has this thing with birds... uh, sometimes he thinks he has feathers"
More than four decades after his passing, talmidim, assistants, and the American hosts of “everyone’s rosh yeshivah” share their personal memories of Rav Shmuel Rozovsky It was a frigid morning in late January of 1978. A throng of men stood together in the arrivals hall at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, eyes trained on the door. Suddenly, the doors swung open and a tall, dignified rabbi appeared. Instantly, the waiting crowd locked arms, began a celebratory tune, and began to dance toward him. A weakened Rav Shmuel Rozovsky approached the joyous crowd with surprise in his ...