When successful entrepreneur Rav Sholom Landau was advised to leave the business world and become a dayan instead, he accepted the challenge
“People are willing to accept someone who’s been in Torah from the beginning but don’t always fargin someone who’s made a change midlife.” Businessmen-turned yungeleit learned alongside men who’ve never left yeshivah (Photos: Amir Levy)
It was a spring night in New York City.
Rav Sholom Landau real estate developer and owner of a successful computer company was young ambitious and deeply involved in the business community of chassidishe Brooklyn. Now there was a new business opportunity on the horizon and he wanted some advice.
Rav Shmuel Binyamin Kraus the Rav of the Satmar community in London England was in Williamsburg for a family simchah. Many people come to him for berachos and advice. Rav Sholom decided to join them.
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