In a lengthy hesped during his Chumash shiur, Rav Avraham Yehoshua Soloveitchik, rosh yeshivas Brisk, spoke of the Ponovezh rosh yeshiva, Maran Rav Gershon Edelstein zt”l.
Among other things, Rav Soloveitchik mentioned that without Rav Edelstein, the Ponovezh Yeshiva would not have been sustained, and he expressed our need for rachamim, mercy, from Hashem.
He mentioned that we should learn from Rav Gershon “how to live our lives with rare calmness,” a calmness that Rav Soloveitchik described as “Reb Gershondig.”
The talmidim of Rav Avraham Yehoshua has related that since the petirah of Rav Gershon, Rav Avraham Yehoshua has expressed his pain of his petirah three times already, describing the immense loss the generation has sustained with Rav Gershon’s passing.
{Matzav.com Israel}