Torah Genius with Phenomenal Memory, 50 Years Mashpia in Morristown, Special Farbrengens

was our Mas marwn 1979 to 1981 we called him you could say was a genius and a a is a genius in Tyra in all parts of Tyra but that didn't make him this the the mashpia of Marist toown for 50 years that didn't make him special I mean that's you find you don't find many people like that that's true but a as the rebba wrote to his kala before they married that he's AAL Midas he was really AAL Midas means someone who was sensitive in in in character he had a a refined character the style was overwhelming you with the bread and length ofus that was published as soon as it came out he got a hold of it and he went through the entire thing not a little bit here a little bit there the entire safer the entire book and we saw this because all of a sudden he's learning at his desk before you know students started to come to him to ask him questions in the in in in the MIM in the discourses that they were learning and he was learning and shaking away and learning from this safer that just came out so I would go over to him I would say to what's this he says a new saer came out learning learning who's going to learn it and when will it be learned and this was amazing for us we were like 19 20 years old for us to see this to see a person who literally is learning is diligent is is is refined on top of it all was tremendous the's warmth was seen at fait especially towards the last hour or so of the faan and post faan let me describe this to you first of all what he would do at fabrin is he would tell stories and stories of much of which he heard from his and what he read he he he learned he knew well V he heard much from and others and and he would share that he remembered his memory was phenomenal he didn't forget anything I'm telling you he didn't forget and he would just go you know and then another story and another V he didn't speak at faan there was no it wasn't lectures sermons and he didn't speak you know very long half an hour at time 10 minutes a in you know 10 15 minutes a in and it was amazing and we were like amazed it was the first time that we heard from a Masia so many cdic stories of people who either you know we we knew some of them and some that we didn't know but our parents for examp my father for example my father was a student of so was a younger student so when he would speak about I gravitated to that because I related to it because I heard from my father so many things about and then then and he would say a lot of and it's was so interesting because we looked at him during the week you know he was kind of more to himself a little you know a little colder you know you had to come to him and when you came to him he answered your questions and he spoke to you but he wasn't the type of mashpia that you know uh had much warmth and Ava in the sense of outward prog ression towards you and you know and holding you and hugging you and smiling at you that really wasn't his approach so knowing him that way and then all of a sudden at fa he says and uh 11:12 at night before we end the faan he's you know he's I'm not going to say sh or intoxicated but he was you know nice and happy and and he's smiling and he's kind of sometimes you know says a a a nice ver and then all of a sudden the bring finishes and we sing the Nan that we always sang at the end was and when we did this he would get up and we' all dance in circles and then he would make a Somers a coola and then he said to to us come on aula means a Somers do it and this one do it and it was so warm and when we finish that then he would start walking and and to the door and to go down the steps and we we we walked with him so that he doesn't fall and that he doesn't get hurt it was just uh it was so a contrast on one hand between someone who's so intellectually motivated and oriented and kind of Colder to someone who's so warm and and and and and full of smiles and and fun you know in a sense was a deep deep thinker ofus really I think next to KH he was the next deepest un understanding someone who understood in the last generation really his breath and as far as Yas his knowledge is the quantity he knew everything and by the way he knew a tremendous amount of nigler some say he was even greater he knew he knew all the deepest you know commentaries that they learn in the yeshivas and the lit yeshivas and other yeshivas he knew them all in fact he learned with Bim these things and there were times that he gave he had a class in in in in in in gamorra so this was something that was very very special and in those years the formative years when you start you know your mind opens your 19 you're 20 you start thinking and you start looking at things differently having a Jew like him to to look at and to hear to emulate was very very refreshing I personally had a a very very close relationship with him I spoke to him about things that were personal and he spoke back he gave back his ideas he once told my father he met my father in mids and he said my father asked him yeah this was shortly y after I came to maristan a while after he said to my father my father said how's my son doing Yesa he says he calls my father by his first name and he says I must tell you I your son you know keeps me on my feet and I love him I'm not sharing this saying this you know to make the toot my horn really I'm saying this because the relationship of a student with a teacher can be the greatest relationship you know every relationship has its uniqueness the student teacher relationship is a different relationship than the Father and Son and the employer and the employee and a husband a wife and two brothers or two sisters it's a different type of relationship years later later whenever we saw each other he would smile and greet me and say hi am how you doing what are you learning you know I remember I once corner of Kingston and momery in Crown Heights and after the mimer he comes over he says and he was sitting he wasn't sitting by the table but he was sitting you know one of the benches but he was listening and he and he gave me in felt in the Yash is you know thank you for continuing what I taught you the importance of and to live a lifestyle passed away relatively young but the thousands of students that continue in his ways today who are mashing themselves and teachers and rabbis and workers and all kinds are all part of of his what he left mayem help us that um we go in learning from of for 50 years