‘The Road Not Taken’ – What I Admire MOST About Rabbi Y.D. Grossman

In Rabbi Nachman Seltzer’s exceptional book, “Living Legend: Rabbi Grossman of Migdal Haemek” he retells many good deeds done by Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman.

But I think the greatest story of all is the invisible one, that of ongoing refraining.

I mean the story (beginning on p. 367) of Rabbi Grossman resisting seemingly unanimous calls by both the political and religious establishment’s Who’s Who to become the State of Israel’s “Chief Rabbi” — twice! — upon his father’s request \ demand.

ושים חלקנו עמהם!