THERE is no way to capture the phenomenon that was Rav Yehoshua Max, neither in words nor with pictures. He was an ish peleh, a fiery meteor that illuminated our generation — and then was gone. We will try, however, to present a partial portrait of this gaon and tzaddik, so as to bring an aliyah to this special neshamah and to connect in some way to that great tzaddik that was amongst us and aspire to reach loftier levels of greatness.
When Rav Yehoshua was yet a bachur, his Rebbi muvhak, Rav Aharon Schechter, declared that he was destined to be among the future gedolei hador. In his early years as a yungerman, his rebbi Rav Yaakov Drillman attested that he was an illui in the league of the legendary Meicheter and Visker illuyim. Rav Yaakov Drillman remarked at the levayah that there should have been 600,000 people in attendance, in honor of a gaon of his unparalleled stature. Those who truly knew Rav Yehoshua were not shocked by these statements. Who was this singular adam gadol, and how did he become the gaon and tzaddik that he was?
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