The Northampton Seminar
R. Schlomo Riskin
At each juncture – when I went to Yeshiva University High School of Brooklyn, and then when I went to Yeshiva University – my mother would say, “We’re letting you follow the course of your own mind, and that’s fine. But remember, you promised you’re not going to become a rabbi.” I don’t know if I actually promised that, but I certainly gave her to understand that I wouldn’t become a rabbi, and I really didn’t plan at that time to do so.
And then I entered Rav Joseph Ber Soloveitchik’s Talmud class.
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