Longtime mechanech Rabbi Leibish Lish learned through his own challenges about connecting with a child’s inner world
Photos: Naftoli Goldgrab, Yossi Goldberger, Personal archives
January of 2020, some 90,000-strong packed into the MetLife Stadium for the 13th Siyum HaShas. More than three years have passed since then and, should nature run its course, the memories would have waned by now.
Their dissipation has been strangely reluctant, though. The unity, the joy, the clarion call for further growth in Torah, continue to live on in the hearts and minds of all who were there.
Nature, for some reason, has not been running its course.
And that could well be because it wasn’t all that natural. These were moments when we knew we were encountering something otherworldly; the neshamah, which never forgets, gave a small leap and we all felt it.
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