Rav Gustman - Artscroll

The youngest Dayan of Vilna and illustrious Rosh Yeshivah in New York and Yerushalayim The brilliant yeshiva student. The youngest dayan on Vilna's beis din -- and its sole survivor. The partisan fighting Nazis with guns -- and with his bare hands. The eminent Rosh Yeshivah, beloved by his students -- and by many of the twentieth century's greatest gedolim. That was Rav Gustman zt"l. And this is his unique and inspiring story. When little Yisrael Zeev Gustman's father brought him to his rebbie, the Chafetz Chaim, the venerable sage called him a "good boy." This "good boy" knew all six sedarim of Mishnah by heart by the time he was ten. Years later, when he was a famed Rosh Yeshivah, he insisted that he'd never been an iluy, a child prodigy; all his youthful accomplishments, he declared, came through his intense love of Torah. It was a love that would mark him throughout his long, unusual, and productive life. At the age of 21, Rav Gustman was the youngest dayan to sit on the famed Viln