How he came to be rebbe in boston: originally the rebbe reb pinchos dovid was a “simple” (I put it in quotes as he was the nephew of reb dovid milelov (who was known far and wide for his ‘sight’) and was a direct descendant of the brody rov (who ran away to eretz yisroel when he was found out to be a baal mofes) yungerman (mid to late twentys) in yerushalayim. His uncle reb dovid tells him the he should go to america as they need him there. The rebbe being that he wasn’t keen on leaving eretz yisroel said no. Reb dovid said “fine we will see” and that was the end of that. A little while later the rebbe is requested to serve as av beis din on a beis din in europe. The rebbe thinks about the case for a little and seeing as it looked to be a short one two case, agreed. Of course it did not turn out to be a one two case and things started to drag and drag. Meanwhile, world war one breaks out and being that the rebbe is a resident of eretz yisroel which then was under the turkish empire, he has to get out of europe and fast. Due to the swiftness at which borders were getting closed and the difficulty involved in obtaining papers, they decided (and succeeded) in just getting the rebbe onto a boat which was leaving europe and then they would worry about getting him back to eretz yisroel. Well they get him onto a boat and where do you think the boat is headed? Of all places, america and so the rebbe is brought to america and lands in boston. That is how he got there.
I will have to refresh my memory of the rest (how he came to be rebbe etc). Besides I think this post is a wee bit long.
Oh by the way I only brought up that I was a shammash to explain how I know the story. It so happens that the zuber (my family) and the horowitz (the rebbe’s family) mishpachos were very close and go as far back to when my father, the current rebbe (or to be pc my current rebbe), and my uncle were playmates as kids.
😀 Zuberman! 😀