It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. Invictus William Ernest Henley In 1939 World War II erupted while Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, a leading Lithuanian Torah teacher, was in Palestine (as Israel was known at that time), separated from his wife, eleven children, and three hundred students. As the war raged, he made every effort, albeit unsuccessfully, to save Europea