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My Personal Rebbe, My Personal Tzaddik  

JL;DR SUMMARY Cindy Scarr shares a heartfelt tribute to Rav Yissachar Dov Biderman of Lelov, a revered tzaddik known for his deep personal connections and spiritual guidance. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TzaddikAvodas HashemChassidusJewish UnityAhavas YisraelSpiritual GuidancePersonal StoriesRav Yissachar Dov BidermanLelov PiotrkovDr. Chaim David Bernhard

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"told me to return and learn with him whenever I was in the area of his beis medrash on Rechov Bar Ilan in Jerusalem."
Tel Aviv, Central District, Israel
"his father, Rav Moshe Mordechai Lelover, who moved his beis medrash to Tel Aviv in the early 1940s, was known as true gadol and tzaddik both inside and outside the frum world."

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