Some things, like dedication to Torah, don’t change.Not in a year, and not in millennia
PHOTO: AARON JETTLESON
Each morning, Rabbi Shmuel Y. Friedman takes the train from Brooklyn to Manhattan for work. He uses his time traveling through the hubbub of the Empire State to traverse the transcendent echelons of Rava and Abaye. One day last week, a man approached him and held up his phone. “Is this you?” he asked. Rabbi Friedman looked at the phone’s screen. It was indeed him. He nodded, uncertain what the man wanted.
“I took this picture last year,” the man explained. “Now I’m back on the train and see that you’re doing the exact same thing.”
Because some things, like dedication to Torah, don’t change.
Not in a year, and not in millennia.
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