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Granot<O:P></O:P></SPAN></B></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Rabbi Dessler turned down an offer to serve as
<I>dayan</I> in Vilna, choosing instead to join his brother in
business.<SPAN> </SPAN>In 1928, following the death of his step-mother, he
was forced to accompany his father to <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1
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w:st="on">England</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> for medical
treatment.<SPAN> </SPAN>He never returned to <ST1:COUNTRY-REGION
w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE
w:st="on">Lithuania</ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION>.<SPAN> </SPAN>In
<ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on">England</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION> he took up a
rabbinical position (first in the East End and later in Dalston), and for a time
he was also the private tutor of the children of the Sassoon family from
<ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE
w:st="on">Bombay</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY>.<SPAN> </SPAN>His wife and
daughter joined him in <ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION
w:st="on">England</ST1:COUNTRY-REGION></ST1:PLACE> three years later</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><SPAN class=977225212-31102007>Is there any Mesora as to
why "<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Rabbi Dessler turned down an offer to serve
as <I>dayan</I> in Vilna, choosing instead to join his brother in business" -
Did he ever speak or write on the issue?<BR>KT<BR>Joel
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