Rav Reuven was a Torah giant who served as Rosh Yeshiva in the pre-war Kaminetzer Yeshiva and after the Churban in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas and Beth Medrash Elyon in Monsey. He was an engineer of the budding, fledgling Torah community in post war America. He was tremendously active in hatzalah work during the Holocuast and moser nefesh to try to save the remnant of European Jewry located in Europe, Siberia and Shanghai. Rav Reuven became perhaps the greatest voice of true hashkafas haTorah in the first decade after World War II when the difficult question arose of how G-d fearing Jews were to relate to the new phenomenon of the secular State of Israel.
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