Rebbetzin Pesha Lebowitz

Rebbetzin Pesha Leibowitz, wife of Rav Henoch Leibowitz, Rosh Yeshiva of Chafetz Chaim in Queens (1928-2004). She was born in Radin, the daughter of Rav Avraham Trop, and the grand-daughter of Rav Naftali Trop, the Radiner Rosh Yeshiva. The Rebbetzen’s father-in-law, Rav Dovid Leibowitz, the founder of Chofetz Chaim Yeshiva, was a talmid muvhak or the Alter of Slabodka, a nephew of the Chofetz Chaim, and a close talmid of Rav Naftali Trop. Rav Shmuel Berenbaum once remarked that “‘the Rebbitzen is a ‘gaon’ in chesed.”