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“‘Hakaras hatov? What hakaras hatov could Rebbi possibly have to me?’”

I learned a great deal in those tension-filled minutes waiting for the train to depart

The conductor told him the next stop would be in a number of hours, long after Yom Kippur would begin

“Are you also going to tell me I’m crazy, like my brother?” he asked me. “Don’t take sides here. You have no idea what’s going on.”

“Elana’s been teaching Katie about Judaism,” they chuckled to my parents one morning. “Katie says she wants to convert”

But way back in ’85, there was something else special that also went on. Truly great people walked the earth, and many of them passed through mekomos haTorah like Horim