Rav Willig spoke as a close personal friend and local Rov. Rav Ausbund did not give any haskomos to YU or their shitos – very much the opposite. Trust me, my husband and family knew him well. What we can learn from the relationship that Rav Ausband and yblch”t Rav Willig had is that you could befriend and even become bffs with someone who you don’t agree with hashkafakly. My husband watched them interact and dance together by Rav Willig’s grandson’s chasuna a few nights b4 the petirah, and he shared this with me already then. Rav Ausband actually sat at a table with the Willig children and grandchildren and they hung on to every word he spoke. yz”b
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