The Wives’ Thank You
Torah learning
At the last Knessia Gedola, in 5740 (1980), several women who were married to his talmidim in Eretz Yisroel asked to meet him. He asked after their families and then asked why they had requested the meeting.
They said they wanted to express their hakoras hatov. Their husbands, they explained, treated them with more respect and consideration as they had watched the way their Rebbe treated the Rebbetzin. The incident made a great impression on the Rosh Yeshiva, as a clear picture of how a Rebbe’s conduct shapes his talmidim.