379:, who was then 94 years old and in poor health. Instead of giving a direct response to Gurwicz's question about whether to proceed with the shidduch, the Chofetz Chaim kept repeating a series of verses from the morning prayers, including "Blessed is He Who redeems and rescues". Rabbi Gurwicz understood this as a message that he should go ahead and marry Liba Lopian and move to England.
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suggesting that he join the staff of the budding
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His bride insisted that they use the presents and money they received for their wedding to pay for a ticket for his father to join them at the wedding in
England; it was the first time father and son had met since Rabbi Gurwicz had left home at age 13. A few years after Rabbi Kushelevsky returned to
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During the engagement period, however, Rabbi Lopian's wife, Sarah Leah, died at the age of 49 in
England, leaving 13 orphans. Liba, the eldest girl, wrote to her fiancé saying that she could not leave her father with the burden of caring for all the children on his own, and that if Leib wished to
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arranged the forgeries. Forced to choose a new surname, he selected his mother's maiden name, Gurwicz, which he kept for the rest of his life. He stayed on in the
Baranovich Yeshiva and paid off his debt to the student who had forged his passport by agreeing to learn the
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In 1932 Rabbi Elyah Lopian, then head of the Eitz Chaim yeshiva in London, came to Poland — then the Torah center of the world — with his eldest daughter, Liba, in the hopes of finding a suitable marriage partner for her. Rabbi Lopian's friend, Rabbi
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Lithuania and Poland, Polish nationals were liable to be expelled from the country. The nearest passport office was in
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in the hopes of seeing his family, who had moved there, however his father had been called back to Malat. In the meantime, Vilna was the new home of the
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671:Teller, Hanoch (1987).
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41:Gateshead Rosh Yeshiva
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474:Death and succession
465:World Agudath Israel
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1169:People from MolÄtai
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1068:Aryeh Leib Grosnass
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