“He [Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz] never tired of telling
his students that that Eretz Yisrael is the natural place for every Jew.
Only there can a Jew flourish to his maximum potential.
A Jew’s life outside of Eretz Yisrael inevitably has a truncated,
unnatural quality. He is like a polar bear removed from
his Arctic habitat and placed in the Bronx Zoo.”
“Any Jew who does not at least dream of going up to Eretz Yisrael,
he said, is surely lacking something in his Yiddishkeit.”
SOURCE: Reb Shraga Feivel: the life and times of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz,
the architect of Torah in America (chapter 25, page 322) by Yonoson Rosenblum
for Artscroll / Mesorah, year 2001, based on Aharon Sorasky’s Shelucha DeRachmana,
ISBNs: 157819797X, 9781578197972, 1578197961, 9781578197965
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Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz was the founder of Torah U’Mesorah
and became principal of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in year 1921 CE.
His career in Yeshiva Torah Vodaas lasted 25 years.
He was known as “the premier architect of Torah in American history.”
He left this world in 1948 CE at the age of 62 years.