A Siyum at the Airport
During the Nine Days, Rav Kotie Rapp organized a siyum on a masechta at an airport and asked Rav Teitz, who had arrived there, to lead it. Rav Teitz remarked that Lubavitch learned Gemara even on Tishah BeAv at an airport. Rav Rapp passed the remark on to Rav Chodakov, who asked him to call Rav Aharon Dov Halperin at once, so that Rav Halperin could interview Rav Teitz.
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