I am always amazed at the joy vitality and zest for life of Yehoshua Baruch Mendlowitz.
When I saw him at the wedding I asked what he was doing these days. He told me he’s an assistant to the first-grade rebbi at the local yeshivah. “The boys are very privileged to have you as a rebbi!” I told him. He smiled broadly and looked very happy.
Although Shua has spina bifida has been confined to a wheelchair his entire life and has faced numerous challenges most of us will never deal with his pure simchas hachayim is both contagious and enviable.
At the wedding when I remarked to his father Rav Raphael Mendlowitz how wonderful Shua looked he told me that on Chanukah Shua had made a siyum on all the tractates of Seder Moed! I looked over at Shua and I just mumbled the word “Unbelievable!”
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