Five Dollars to Lein
One day Rav Teitz called Samuel Kosofsky, then a student at the JEC high school, out of gym class and asked whether he could lein. When the boy said yes, the Rav assigned him to read the weekly Torah portion at the Murray Street Shul every Shabbos, for five dollars a week. After about a year the boy asked to stop, and Rav Teitz agreed.
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