Any tribute to the Bobover Rav, zy’a will fall short of the mark. For those who knew him and basked in his light, there is no need to eulogize. And for those who did not know or see him, any written hesped will not begin to describe the magnificence of this gadol and tzaddik.
After the Bobover chassidus was shattered in the horrors of the Holocaust, it was rebuilt in the United States by Rav Shlomo Halberstam. The Bobover Rebbe himself endured plenty of tribulations during the war and found himself staring into the jaws of death on several occasions.
To quote his nephew, Rabbi Aaron Twerski, esq, “The intensity and brilliance of his Torah; the awe inspiring avoda, which was central to his life; the unbounded ahavas Yisroel that touched the lives of tens of thousands; the regal presence that he projected; the unending humility that permeated his every act- all need to be addressed in some sequential fashion. But they were not separate parts of his being. Those who were fortunate to experience him sensed the total integration of all of his attributes into this quintessential oveid Hashem. For he was at one and the same time royal and humble, profound and simple, totally accessible and yet light years removed in a spiritual plane all alone.”
