My Yeshivah — Home for Eternity: Shavuos 5782 - Mishpacha Magazine

My Yeshivah — Home for Eternity: Shavuos 5782

“If we don’t accept this bochur, he’ll probably go to work and abandon learning. I’m not willing for Am Yisrael to lose such a talmid chacham”

This is a fast, one-pan, “can’t-decide-if-I-need-one-more-starch-or-vegetable” kind of side

Tradition is indelible for master sofer Rabbi Shmuel Schneid

"At first I called it the Shoel Umeishiv hotline, but a lot of boys don’t know what a shoel umeishiv is, so we changed it to Dial-a-Rebbi"

For seven weeks, we’ve counted, night after night, anticipation building

Jews don’t hit other Jews, period. They don’t hit anyone, for that matter

Through it all my father remembered his promise, what he’d taken upon himself on that long ago night of mourning on a hilltop

It seems that many readers missed the essence of the story

I finally convinced my parents that I’m not too young to go to sleepaway camp. They think I’m a baby (snort)

Chayei Moshe is what introduced me to this youthful chassidus, and led me down this magical rabbit hole