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"I may be dreaming, but I am not sleeping."
This remark, attributed to the Ponovezher Rav, was a guiding principle in Dr. Rothschild’s life. This attitude enabled him to accomplish the impossible - establishing a hospital in the city of Bnei Brak with his own hands, while still caring for each of his 17 children with such devotion that each of them could have imagined that he was an only child.
"We never felt deprived in any way," the grieving children told Mishpacha after their father's passing. “Our father was always particular to give each of us quality time, as well as to spend time together with the entire family. He davened vasikin every day, and then he would come home and send us off to school while personally preparing our breakfasts. In the afternoons, when we returned from school, he would come home to have lunch with us, and he would join us at the supper table as well. The meals were short, but there was never a time when he did not join us.
"Every Shabbos, he reviewed every child's learning with him," they continued. “He never missed a parent-teacher conference. and would give out prizes that he had acquired during his many trips abroad. ”
“He always found time to learn, and he was a talmid chacham in the fullest sense. He valued Torah above anything else, and even though he worked as a doctor, his greatest desire in life was to see all of us dedicating our own lives to learning. That was a wish that he was granted: All of his sons and sons-in-law went on to spend their lives learning, with virtually no involvement in any other matters. ”
This was his joy, the realization of his deepest hope: the hospital was his passion, but children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren engaged in Torah and mitzvos was his essence.
His generations- and the generations of those born, helped and healed through the work of his hands, an army of zechusim accompanying the doctor to Gan Eden.
