The Yohrzeit of Rav Soloveitchik

Today is the Yohrzeit of Rav Soloveitchik. Yesterday I asked several times Rabbi Beilin, a distinguished and special student of Rav Soloveitchik in Boston, if he wants to go to the Tzion on Baker St. Not only he refused but he also is denying the Jewish people his special memoirs about the Rabbi.

On the subject of memoirs and Soloveitchiks I was reading on Yom Tov The Life and Times of Reb Rephoel Soloveitchik of Brisk and came across the following passage about the Brisker Rov, Reb Rephoel�s father on page 88:

The Brisker Rov had great mesirus nefesh for arba minim. In Vilna, during the war, it was nearly impossible to find proper lulavim. The Brisker Rov located an exclusive greenhouse where exotic plants were cultivated. In 1940 he paid the astounding sum of $300 for an entire palm tree from which three branches were suitable for lulavim. Since the Brisker Rov couldn't afford the amount on his own, he looked for partners. He found two. One was the Brisker Rov's landlord in Vilna, Mendel Levin. He was a rich chosid who could well afford becoming a partner. The second partner was the previous Lubovitcher Rebbe, Reb Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. The Lubovitcher Rebbe sent one of his gabboim to fetch the lulav. The gabbai arrived holding a Shulchan Aruch Harav in his hand. He consulted his sefer while checking the lulav, although the Brisker Rov had said it was definitely kosher. When the gardener watched them cutting up the palm tree that she had grown for beauty, she started crying. She said that if she had known that they were going to cut up the tree, she would never have sold it.

Here some Brisker lomdus for Mr. Glaberson the author of the book:
1. Rayatz was not in Vilna during the war. Certainly not in 1940. He was briefly in Riga in 1939 while he was escaping from Warsaw. He was in Riga in December of that year not on Tishrey (see The Latvian border).
2. No comment about the snide Shulchan Aruch Harav remark. What did the Brisker expect him to hold, the last issue of the National Geographic?
3. And finally, ever seen a palm tree? Do you really have to cut the tree to get the "three branches"?
I swear these people are worse than the best of the Lubavitcher propaganda hackers.

P.S. G-d bless the memory of the house of Brisk and Rav Soloveitchik of Boston!