Reply To: Rav Wolbe

“In today’s day, one can hardly find a person who is a “Shomea”, a listener.

You have no idea how we listened in Mir in Europe.

When Reb Yerucham spoke, 400 Bochurim crowded around the Bimah where he sat, and

they stood atop of the benches. On every bench stood some 30 Bochurim.

Reb Yerucham spoke quietly as if to himself. He spoke for an hour and a half.

The effort to hear and understand was so intense, that I felt sometimes that my

head would burst!”

Verbatim from Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe z”l.

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The Mashgiach knew every Talmid and his character traits. Once, when one of the

Maggidei Shiurim was away for a week, the Mashgiach asked a 19 year old Bochur

in the Yeshiva to say Shiur in place of the missing Rebbi.

The young boy, seeing no way out, reluctantly agreed.

The Mashgiach listened to the Shiur from behind the door.

After the Shiur, the Mashgiach complemented the young Maggid Shiur, “Your Shiur

was beautiful, perhaps tomorrow you should say it a little slower.”

“The Mashgiach directed each one of us like a father, directing us personally to

reach our potential,” said that ‘young’ Rebbi [who today is a renowned Maggid Shiur].

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