These snapshots of gedolim in campare more than summer moments. They’re lifetime memories
These snapshots of gedolim in camp are more than summer moments. They’re lifetime memories.
There was another building down the road whose lights stayed on throughout the night, also reverberating with song — the tunes of the beis medrash.
Like most camps, Camp Rayim hosted a popular band and singer for what’s become the traditional Motzaei Shabbos Nachamu concert. Given the late summer Shabbos, the concert started only at 10 p.m, ending slightly past midnight — and that was just for the younger grades. After catching their breaths for a few minutes, the band was ready for round two — a concert for the mesivta division, in which they electrified the large social hall and kept the energized bochurim dancing into the wee hours of the morning.
And while the social hall pulsated with excitement, there was another building down the road whose lights stayed on throughout the night, also reverberating with song — the tunes of the beis medrash. That Shabbos, Lakewood rosh yeshivah Rav Yeruchem Olshin had come to Camp Rayim, and a family member of his wanted to attend the concert. Not wanting to go to sleep until the bochur was back but uninterested in attending a concert, the Rosh Yeshivah headed for the beis medrash, where he removed his hat and frock and swayed over his Gemara, singing the sweetest of songs. In his own blissful world, the Rosh Yeshivah sat through the night, writing chiddushim and plowing through the yam haTalmud.
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