I was transformed from being a baal agalah to being the “good friend of the Rebbe”
Much has been written about Rav Yaakov Perlow, the Novominsker Rebbe ztz”l. Much more needs to be said, but I never learned in his yeshivah, and I never visited his home.
So what additional perspective can I offer? The one period in my life when I was privileged to spend time with the Rebbe almost weekly.
During the early 1980s, when the Rebbe was already living in Boro Park, he would still come to Washington Heights to deliver a Chumash shiur on Thursday nights.
There weren’t many volunteers to drive the Rebbe back to Boro Park as that meant returning to the Heights around midnight, when the prospects of finding a parking spot were bleak. But I jumped at any opportunity to drive the Rebbe home.
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