https://www.etzion.org.il/sites/default/files/2023-04/Lichtenstein0095-0112.pdf
My father was known to his talmidim as the Rav. My mother was known as Mrs. Soloveitchik. Many times, when my father was invited to deliver a lecture, he would say, “I will talk to Mrs. Soloveitchik.” We children knew that was his way of saying no. He never spoke to her about the invitation nor did he speak. Very few of my father’s talmidim knew my mother. My father commuted to the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS), at Yeshiva University in New York, from our home in Boston and she seldom travelled with him. It was only after the children had grown up and gone their own way that my mother began accompanying my father to New York. Despite her seeming anonymity, my mother was well known in Boston where she was the Chair of the School Committee of the Maimonides Educational Institute (later called Maimonides School), which had been founded by my father in 1937. The School Committee made curricular and policy decisions and was involved in the everyday functioning of the school at the micro level. The school committee ran the school, and Mrs. Soloveitchik was the driving force of the committee.
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