Rivka�s mother & Soloveitchik

Rivka is an active person in the community here, her mother passed away, Ha Makom Yenachem.. So I was able to make it to the Baker Street Cemetery just when they were covering the casket today. While at the cemetery I decided to heed the advice of a certain special student of Rav Soloveitchik and go to have one on one with the Rov. His Mazeyva is on the other side of the cemetery from where Rivka�s mother was buried and stone throw from my grandmother�s Mazeyvah.

So I stood there and I said a single word I heard from the Rov: "Bobruisk". It �s odd that Schneur brought it up today. On the first week when I came from Russia I was invited to a Shabbos lunch with Rav Soloveitchik by his son in law Rav Twersky. During the lunch Soloveitchik asked me about my grandfather. I said he was from Propoisk (a tiny village in Whiter Russia). Rav Soloveitchik thought I said Bobruisk.

I also noticed that the Rov passed away on the same date as the birthday of a certain contributor to this blog? I guess that is what I meant when I said "azkir al ha Tzion".

American naturalization photos from the National Archives in Waltham, MA. Published on page 279 of Shaul Shimon Deutsch's 2nd volume.