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You are referring to a famous, powerful story about Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, famously known as the Ponevezher Rov (the Rabbi of the Ponevezh Yeshiva).While visiting Rome, he had his driver stop directly in front of the ancient Arch of Titus, which depicts Roman soldiers plundering the holy implements of the Jewish Temple after destroying Jerusalem. Standing in front of the monument, the Rov defiantly shouted at the image of the Roman emperor in Yiddish: