My relationship with Rav Yosef Ber Soloveichik of Boston was somewhat different from that of his talmidim. He had two main groups of talmidim; those who saw themselves as part of the Modern Orthodox world and who had studied under him at Yeshiva University, and those from the yeshiva world at large who, predominantly but not exclusively, studied under him during the summer months in Boston. Many of the latter had also attended his shiurim at YU somewhat clandestinely.

Rav Nota Greenblatt, one of Rav Moshe Feinstein’s greatest talmidim, moved to Memphis, Tennessee, as a single, young man to see what he could do for Yiddishkeit. He remained in the city for almost 70 years and became renowned as one of America’s top halachic authorities, the posek sought after by most other poskim, people such as Rav Moshe Heinemann and Rav Yosef Rottenberg, for his halachic opinion. At the same time, he traveled to scores of places to be mesadeir gittin (the rav overseeing the procedure of a get), check mikva’os, eruvin, and kashrus, and whatever other halachic issues were needed.