He’s graced with the ability to energize people around him, to electrify audiences with powerful Torah and mussar thoughts. But Rav Boruch Mordche Ezrachi considers employing the methods of Slabodka to fuel a passion for learning in budding talmidei chachamim to be his primary objective in life.
Chiyus isn’t physical but spiritual. It is something I experienced some years ago when the celebrated rosh yeshivah of Ateres Yisrael in Bayit Vegan Rav Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi came to visit my hometown of Montreal.
He delivered a shiur at the yeshivah gedolah in town and even if one had never learned a mishnah it was an experience. His commanding presence his poise and delivery his natural touch in delivering a shiur — asking questions that create an inexplicable pressure in the room urging his listeners to disagree challenging them to ask welcoming them to interrupt — and then finally providing answers that fill the crowd with joy.
“K’nesinasah” as they say in yeshivos — an echo of the thunder and lightning at the Mountain back then.
After that shiur I urged the Rosh Yeshivah to come speak in a smaller yeshivah one with a clientele further from traditional learning where I served as a rebbi at the time. His assistant insisted that there was no slot on his crowded schedule but I pleaded certain of the effect he would have on the talmidim.
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