T he day after Yom Kippur Zevi Brickstein (name changed) arrived in shul for the last Minchah one of over 100 bochurim — besides the regulars — who crowded into the beis medrash.
Many of the bochurim wore their hats perched so precariously on their heads that you wondered if by the first shuckle the hat would fly off.
Others had their fedora so firmly attached you imagined the hat was an additional body part never to be removed not even to shower.
The boys davened with a fervor that befits a ben Torah; which included a long Shemoneh Esreh with intensity and passion.
