MENTAL ILLNESS TAKES ANOTHER VALUABLE LIFE Rabbi's despair ended in Empire State Building jump All I can do is ask why? Why are those with mental illness and low funds put in this situation? This man wanted help, asked for help and got poor, substandard help. His death is the result a seriously flawed and failed system, greed and the sad stigma of mental illness which must end in this country if we are to save valuable lives. BY RICH SCHAPIRO - DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Jewish scholar Moshe Kanovsky jumped from the Empire State Building. He was a scholar among scholars, a young man with an impressive mind and seemingly limitless potential. Those who knew Moshe Kanovsky, one of six children in a family split between Maryland and Brooklyn, expected him to become one of the great minds in modern Jewish teachings. As a boy, he mesmerized his fellow classmates with his grasp of the Torah. And his reputation for brilliance continued as he blazed through the yeshiva equivalents of middle ...