Rav Sholom Mordechai Schwadron, Yerushalmi Maggid, was the brother-in-law of Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. He was named for his grandfather, the Maharsham, the leading posek in Galicia before World War I. He lost his father at the age of seven, and for a time lived in an orphanage. After his bar mitzva he studied in the Lomza Yeshiva in Petach Tikva, and later in the Chevron Yeshiva in Yerushalayim under Rav Yehuda Leib Chasman. After his marriage, he continued his studies in Kollel Ohel Torah. The kollel’s members included Rav Yosef Sholom Elyashiv and Rav Shmuel Wosner. In addition to his renown as a Maggid, he published approximately twenty-five of his grandfather’s works, as well as Lev Eliyohu (of Rav Elya Lopian), and the writings of Rav Chasman, Ohr Yahal.
