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2 unusual facts about Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz


Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz

These included contingents of the famed yeshivas of Kamenetz, Kletzk, Lubavitch, and Lublin.

During the Six-Day War, when the yeshiva was within range of Jordanian artillery fire, Rabbi Shmuelevitz sent some of the manuscripts to America with his uncle, Rabbi Avraham Yoffen, with specific instructions that he carry them by hand and not put them in his luggage, because, "Dos iz meyn gantze leben (This is my whole life)."



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