MY BELOVED TEACHER

Many people had a teacher who made a big impact on them. The teacher or mashgiach who directed them with love, enthusiasm, or devotion, and left a deep impression that lasts a lifetime. * As the new schoolyear begins, Beis Moshiach asked people to tell about a person in chinuch who made an indelible impression on them.

R’ Lipa Klein can’t help but wax nostalgic over the personality of R’ Yisroel Neveler. Even seventy years later, he recalls the special parable he told his pupils.

R’ Shneur Zalman Herzel chose R’ Yosef Abrams as the model of one who lived “Rebbe” and imparted to him a genuine love for the teachings of Chassidus.

R’ Dovid Glazer selected R’ Shneur Zalman Gafni because he told him straight, “I am not sure this place is good for you.”

R’ Chaim Steiner misses the mashpia, R’ Elimelech Zweibel, who was like a father to him in the galus of distant New Jersey.

R’ Aviram Magor chose R’ YY Wilschansky, “who despite the decades that have passed since I was his student, remembers me, and I am still a person of interest to him.”

R’ Oholiav Abutbul chose R’ Moshe Assoulin, who would not give up on a single student, not even at three in the morning in a last review before a test when he lovingly brought them pitas stuffed with goodies.