Rav Benny is a great teacher & story teller, but what makes this man truly remarkable is how much he (unconditionally) cares for all his students.
When I slept through morning tefilah in Yeshiva he would wake me with a song. When I left Israel to return to the states he said his goodbye with tears. When I returned to visit a few years later (not quite dressed/groomed as a yeshiva bachur should) he greeted me with a smile…and that special glimmer in his eye that let me know he still cared…unconditionally.
Rav Benny is a special, special man and we need him around “Ad 120”.
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Jeffrey Rubin 3:17 pm on July 13, 2011 Permalink |
I had Rav Benny at BMT for night shiur during my year in Israel 1981-1982. I also became closer to him during another year in Israel, at Gruss, 1989-1990. We remained in touch, though not enough. The thing about him that makes me love him is that he makes every person he comes across feel special. He has that twinkle in his eye that lets you know you are special that he cares deeply for everyone. It wasn’t the Torah or Musar that I learned from him that makes me place him on a lonely mantle of tzadikim, it was that to me he is a complete Jew. A special man who practices what he preaches, that he isn’t in it for any gashmiut reason but for his students and for what is best for Klal Yisroel, that he lives and breathes Eretz Yisroel and that he has sacrificed the privacy of his family for all who walk through his door. He should have a refuah shlema, suffer little and know that he has hundreds of talmidim throughout the world who pray daily for his well being.