“With the help of Hashem, Sunday, Tammuz 15 5675 [a year of war across the entire land, which Germany and Austria has made with Russia, England, and France. Cities have been destroyed and provinces inhabited by Jews have been decimated, with tens of thousands displaced without support or assistance; the young men of Judah have fallen dead on both sides, battei midrash in which Torah is studied are few, as there is no one to maintain them, and the Jewish nation’s upheaval is great], Stuyepitz [which has been almost completely burned down, on Monday, the 25th of Sivan, and all the inhabitants are in distress and dire straits with no place to live].”
“Years later, the Chazon Ish pointed to a chiddush in Mesachta Eruvin, and said to disciple, Rabbi Shlomo Kohen, “I propounded this chiddush in a cellar in Stuyepitz, as bullets whizzed above my head.”
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