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Rabbi Marlow 20th Yahrtzeit Reflections
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a date everyone this week in Bethlehem
on Friday
Huff's even is the yurt site the 20th
yard site or allegory Navajo said the
cowman Margalo as we call them in
yeshiva or in the community of Rabbi
Margo all of a sudden
Huff's even traditionally is known as a
sad day and the Jewish calendar pogroms
helman its key programs and the present
of tests taught and it's a sad day for
the Jewish people and on that very day
this great person is the Samba return to
our shell and I'd like to share with you
but covered in honor of this model and
this your sight my recollections of when
I was in his class both in the Hebrew
studies as our ninth grade Rebbe our
frisbee sister Rabi at the United abhava
Church even Ocean Parkway and also as my
fifth-grade English teacher for the
subject of mathematics you know as we
discussed when I did the the clip on
rabbi Shui all over Shalom
he was our third nice if the Rebbe
Alabama is Shiva every Rebbe every
teacher has their signature their
impression that they leave upon
atonement a student so the the world the
Chabad world and others no other model
as the Rev who replaced Arabs Amish
omits welcome when he passed on when
there was a group of three Doug London
that was chosen by the community wrote
with Rabbi model being the head of the
best and there's so much to talk about
that and that that I'll leave for the
others
you know making a documentary and others
will probably talk and write about that
but III want to share a little bit about
the the youth experience I was 19 in the
first my sister I was like 14 years old
or so and it was the year when when I
was a year or two after maxwell's of
severly a few years after she removed
from Bedford and Dean to to Ocean
Parkway and they opened up teen idol
above achieved a new building rabbi ma
who taught us the importance of being
sharp witty and sharp he made such
remarks in the class that sometimes we
went over our heads
sometimes things didn't sound exactly
the way he wanted to be called he wanted
to be addressed or what you thought you
are what you aren't and in Malo using
his Hoffman his bright sharp mind
elevated us now looking back so many
years I see it not as a you know a
humiliation or a put down or you know he
he chose to elevate the student with
hokhmah and that's something that I
didn't find you know by other rabi's
other teachers they were the classical
traditional one so let's say even have
x-ray are they Garfunkel they were each
one was was was was a special person of
their own right but this area of cloak
shaft clarity and sharpness and
wittiness this datum posit possess or
maybe they did but they didn't use it as
a teaching educational tool he did
that's one thing that comes to mind that
you know I think should make us parent
and educators think about you know when
is it appropriate when it's not
appropriate do I have it do I not have
it do I wanna be should I want to be
those are different types of questions
that you have to analyze and and ask
yourself as an educator and as a
recipient of Education his fruit kite
his religiosity in a holic way was very
very palpable for example every Friday
morning the first thing we did when we
came to class at 9 o'clock was he led us
in reviewing the cetera it's called
mother said girl get away each plastic
you do two times with once the targum
which is a hollow climb sock Lenora and
we didn't begin like we did every day
with the Gemara we began with being
matheson reviewing the cetera and even
that he did in a very interesting way
very unusual he did it with a sing song
they say that he knew the entire tighter
and the targum by heart i thought i
never tested him so i can't tell you but
from time to time you could see him
picking up his head and just reading or
looking at us and saying some words but
from that day on I remember I started
with mother cetera and continued the
rest of my life he instilled in us a a
from kite religiosity a flaw a simple a
literal following of halakhah again you
don't have to do Friday morning try day
afternoon Friday night people do it
Shabbos regard then there's the believe
the hug you enjoy him with the repair
shop when he did it I'm not going into
all of that the idea is that he was very
much supportive and led the the way in
teaching us went to be mother centered
and how did your mother said and gave us
a dish muck in being mother said another
thing that comes to mind is his his on
one hand his openness
and on the other hand his discipline
tactics now what do I mean in in our
classroom you know they're your boys
you're you know you're rambunctious you
have lots of energy and ramallah wasn't
the type to squash that energy needless
to say if you did things that were
outrageous and a cause for a punishment
or a cause for being told to go to the
principal's office it was done but I
didn't feel you know threatened by him
although in our English class the fifth
grade we had some very very rambunctious
fine students who are today some of them
you know she look him and others and
good friends of mine bright but they
were very wild to put it in simple
English they made a lot of trouble in
troublemakers there Marlowe disciplined
them very strongly in a way that you
know wasn't conventional but that was
necessary to keep sanity in the
classroom close things I saw for a Marla
was in the mix it happens to be that
little Babaji Shiva Ocean Parkway there
is a mix in the basement today I believe
its clothes been closed for years but in
my days when they would just opened up
that's what that's the microphone we
went to and the rabi's went to and I
noticed once how he went to the mixer
that he immersed in a upright position
and then he merged in a lying-down
position and that caught my curiosity
and I asked him about it in class and
spoke there privately and he said that
this is my recollection if someone else
different they should please let me know
that rabbi Tanner Bell Oliver Shaw was
our principal told them that was the way
the river went to the mikveh
because in Cibola it says that that the
first time you go when you you dip into
the water should be upright and the next
time should be kid dog but
fish which you know lies lies flat in
the water and that's the way he did it
and we learned from him and that's the
way I do it till today I'm no capitalist
I'm the son of Kappa the capitalist but
our Rebbe you know indicated that this
is this is the way it should be done
because it's the way the rabbit did it
has transmitted by Rabbi Tenenbaum to
him rabbi Marlowe to us students or to
me in my case again you know unassuming
he didn't make any public announcements
I don't think he even spoke about it
publicly in class I don't recall them
believe so but when I asked him this is
what he told me another amazing thing
that I saw through mom this I saw a
little when I was older already as a
770's Butler Friday Shabbos
about an hour before Shabbos I was in
770 usually because I lived in Borough
Park a cake the Crown Heights estate the
dormitory whatever I didn't have much
going down so I came to seven seven the
early to prepare for Shabbos and pretty
much 770 was empty you know at let's say
shops was 7:30 at 6:30 if so it was
pretty empty and then and then walks in
on the model with two big towels bags I
mean it was a scene you know Ramallah
was a tall person a very handsome person
you know he was a he had a seer some say
he looked like the rabbit you know is
physical force to his physique is is its
body posture and everything was like you
know oh whatever I think it was shorter
but there were certain similarities and
he walks in with these two bags and you
can see the two toddlers bags are full
of sorrow and heavy and he's carrying
them and he went to a table either it
was behind the beam and maybe I later
was by his place by up you know up front
thereupon I was sitting up front by the
mr. quo and he put them down and he used
them to learn till about I don't know
ten eleven at night every Friday night
and seven seventy empty it out and who
was there Riley Marlowe and that left
such an impression his jagiya potato his
effort his diligence and his love for
learning was tremendous my father told
me that it's also known that when he
wasn't even when he was a teenager he
was he was it was a wild guy you know he
was a troublemaker he was a clever man
as we say you know and then he how do
you see this with that ever and they
never said to him that he wants them to
be a rough like a rough was in Europe
meaning a real time clock I'm a real
serious person and from that day on from
that you see this he walked out and he
started to learn your mother Lila day
and night and he changed and you
couldn't recognize who this was this is
what I was told they say that he knew
the Alton episode not a word for word by
heart again I didn't estimate but that
he was a bookie in the Alpha debenture
holder and I many other swore him for
sure every year he would finish I
believe at least to myself this for the
three misses you just kiss live and for
his parents his father as mother's York
site and possibly more these were things
that we saw that we observed that we
spoke about in yeshiva as as young
teenage students you know we lauded and
looked up to our Rebbe who was this type
of individual he was I heard that there
ever gave him and his wife may she be
well whooping condition never married
them and I heard this my father as well
I have no verification that he was one
of the only people that they never gave
him a seditious kiss at the wedding you
know after the hope I assume sees the
embassies in this way system but one
thing's for sure its Shire
why did Shia why is it possible because
from where he came from you know he was
from German descent
yeah Koosh descent and to make the
transition to becoming a full-fledged
abhava chair and not just the
full-fledged Lubavitch a hostility
rather but committed to theater and
learning with a yogya suma such effort
such diligence to be a role model for us
young American boys and then there was
the period that I mentioned earlier when
it became there of and everyone knows
that after his passing they found checks
on his desk that were never cashed he
couldn't you couldn't bribe revenue or
even if you wanted to he couldn't
I know personal stories I'm not going to
go into them now the private he couldn't
bribe him at all when he spoke he spoke
with brevity I mentioned that earlier
but this was also true when he spoke
there have been publicly they asked if I
bring in Anna the Padre it was very very
brief he didn't waste words and again he
used the same sharp witty style so all
in all this is 20th yard site and we
reflect back on those days in which we
were in yeshiva and we had him as a
Rebbe and his discuss his connection to
the Rebbe was very deep you know he
didn't speak much about it he didn't
scream him he didn't bring for hours
about his cash flows in connection that
that wasn't him he said a verdict
he said one word and in that word there
was everything and that and so too when
the whole mushiya issue of came to came
to be that Ramallah was on board but he
didn't they didn't scream
he didn't you know show you know I'm on
this side I'm on that side that wasn't
who he was but if you paid attention to
what he said you know exactly his stance
made the neshama who the count
Marlo having a leader to bring more
chef's already so that by the yard site
Friday hovercrafts even Hough who you
mail me yoga in the Simca these days
shall be transformed from sorry to
happiness through think it will aim a
bit god of mom