50 young men to the Mir yeshiva in Poland and other European yeshivas. Among the American boys he influenced were Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Baruch Kaplan (founder of the Bais Yaakov movement in America), Shachne Zohn (future rosh yeshiva in Torah Vodaas) Shmuel Schecter, and Avigdor Miller. Herman met Scheinberg when the latter was 14 years old and decided that the youth would make a good husband for his third daughter, Bessie (Basha), who was then only 12. When Scheinberg was 19, Herman suggested the match with his 17-year-old daughter and Scheinberg's parents agreed. With the encouragement of his father-in-law, Scheinberg and his new wife spent their first five years of marriage in the town of Mir, Belarus (then Poland). They lived next-door to the Mir yeshiva, where Scheinberg immersed himself in Torah study. Herman also sent his son, Nochum Dovid, and his wife to Mir right after their marriage, as well as his daughter Ruchoma and her new husband, Moshe Shain. Move to Israel Herman and his wife decided to make aliyah to the Land of Israel in August 1939. They arrived on 1 September, the day World War II broke out in Europe. Theirs was the last passenger ship to leave the United States before the war started. Herman bought a key money apartment in the Zikhron Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem, where he continued to invite dozens of guests to his Shabbat table. He gave a nightly shiur (Torah lecture) in the Zikhron Moshe synagogue, as well as talks in other synagogues on Shabbat. He was considered the "spiritual leader" of the Zikhron Moshe synagogue. Following the death of his wife Aidel in 1946, Herman remarried to Mirel, a widow with two married children. He opened a store selling mezuzahs, tefillin, and Torah scrolls in the Mea Shearim neighborhood, and also headed a loan society and charity fund. In 1964 both he and his second wife were weakened by illness. Herman moved in with his son and daughter-in-law in Jerusalem, while Mirel moved in with her daughter in Bnei Brak. Mirel died in late 1966. Herman died of pneumonia on 24 July 1967 (17 Tamuz 5727) at the age of 87. He was buried on Har HaMenuchot. References Sources External links "All His Worldly Possessions: A Shabbat story" "Torah: The best profession to teach your children" 1880 births 1967 deaths People from Slutsk People from Slutsky Uyezd Belarusian Orthodox