Rabbi Sylvester, What Was the Context in Which You Were His Student?

I wasn't his student in any formal sense, I once asked him if I could be. And he was very adamant that he was not there to create claims. He became much more interested in mentoring in next generation. But through constantly reading his books, to me, he was the model of brilliant, thoughtful, connected, contemporary, ravenet. To me, I remember even in my days in Yeshiva, being deeply inspired. There's a famous story of the great, if you want me to put it. In the bluntest terms, we would like to pledge years of our lives to this man"

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