By Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz
I had always heard about him. He was my father’s cousin. They had learned together in Torah Vodaas and Beis Medrash Elyon, inseparable until he chose to move to Eretz Yisroel.
They were both named after their grandfather, Rav Yaakov Lipschutz of Kovno, and in their early days together in Torah Vodaas, they were given nicknames that stuck with them for the rest of their lives. My father was called “Big Jake” – he was the taller one – and Rav Yaakov was called “Little Jake.” They were famous in yeshiva for their brilliance, hasmodah and independence. He was amazingly brilliant, I was told. He had a photographic memory, they would say. I was looking forward to the day I would meet him.
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