Towards the end of a fascinating post about Edgar Allen Poe’s apparent knowledge of the cessation of the tamid sacrifice on shiva’a asar b’tammuz, seforim blog has this little tidbit:

Although I haven’t seen this in print, I was told that when R. Solovetchik came to Boston there was no mikveah in Boston (there was one outside). R. Solovetchik instructed the women to stop the torah reading until sufficient funds were pledged for a mikveah.

True or not, it’s a great story either way.

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