commonart: that story was written in a VERY controversial piece in Mishpacha that for all practical purposes ended up retracted. Rav Schwab’s son wrote an op-ed afterward saying that the story was not true the way it was told (it was actually his grandfather who said it and what he said was entirely different, etc.).
That’s forgetting about the fact that just because someone is great in one area, that doesn’t mean he/she will be great in other areas. This has NOTHING to do with Rav Schwab, of whom I don’t know very much, but rather in general, as a question out of curiosity- can you say that a given talmid chochom or even mechanech is necessarily the greatest parent in every respect? After all, NO parent is the greatest parent in every respect.
This is not intended to be disrespectful, just curious- my grandfather was a close talmid of a gadol and posek hador of the last generation and is very close friends with his sons, and the big impression I get from his stories is that of greatness through NORMALCY. He was an amazing person, but you knew that he was a real person, unlike the images you get in biographies and articles.
Sorry about the rant, and this is completely off-topic, but this is something I’ve historically not gotten at all.