Incredible video of the life of Harav Shmuel Berenbaum.
Born in the small Polish Lithuanian town of Kinishevin in 1921, Reb Shmuel learned under Rabbi Elchonon Wasserman in Baranovich for three years, and then in the Mir, where he became very close with the Mashgiach, Rav Yechezkel Levenstein. After spending the war years in Shanghai, \ where he was widely recognized for his total immersion in Torah study, Reb Shmuel Berenbaum came to America in 1947, with the rest of the Mirrer Yeshiva. Rabbi Avraham Kalmanowitz, who had sustained the yeshiva in Shanghai and reestablished it on American soil, chose Reb Shmuel Berenbaum as a husband for his daughter, Reichel. When Rav Kalmanowitz passed away in 1964, Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum and Reb Avraham's oldest son, Rabbi Shraga Moshe Kalmanowitz, were appointed as Roshei Yeshiva of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Brooklyn. His remarkable full-time involvement in learning and presenting shiurim coupled with his intense dedication to the well-being and progress of each talmid in the yeshiva, as well as his concern for interested ba'ale battim created an unusual impact on all with whom he had contact.
