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On Friday, Erev
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Sheps suffered from a life-threatening illness during the 48 years that he taught at
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and a short boat ride. In Kobe, many of the yeshiva students wanted the
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espite his poor health, he delivered shiurim with vim and vigor....The thousands of talmidim who learned under him acknowledge that the excitement they have for Torah is an extension of Rav Simcha's passion for
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translation of the Bible and commentaries. Ultimately, he was one of the few people allowed into the United States from Japan.
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Karman, Binyamin Zev (July 8, 2020). "Surprise
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