Give Her Another Week
A woman in the community asked permission to say Kaddish at the JEC. Rav Teitz allowed it, placing a chair for her by the door, where there was no mechitzah, and said, "Give her another week."
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All 6 ›A Yeshiva in Riga for the RebbeRav Teitz first met the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch in Riga. The Rebbe asked him to set up a Chassidic yeshiva in the city, even though Rav Teitz himself came from the Lithuanian…The Creased Pages in the TanyaThe Rebbe once handed Rav Teitz a small Tanya and told him to keep it with him and give it to no one. Later, in Russia, two Chassidim asked him to carry urgent questions to the…A Siyum at the AirportDuring 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…Five Dollars to LeinOne 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…