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Dr. Ari Bergmann remembers his weekly learning with Rabbi Halivni.
For 15 years, my weekly calls with Professor Rabbi David Weiss Halivni were the highlight of my week. Now that he’s gone, Sundays will never be the same.
My Sundays will never be the same. My weekly inspiration and enlightenment are gone. Forever. It is hard to describe how much this feels like the end of an era. For 15 years, my weekly calls with Professor Rabbi David Weiss Halivni on Sundays were the highlight of my week, and my entire weekend was organized around them. Those Sundays were the perfect follow-up to Shabbos. They provided the inspiration and intellectual charge for the week to come. More than anything, I learned what a mentor was supposed to be: Halivni was a true rebbe, caring and inspiring. He taught me how to be a teacher, a father, and, ultimately, a mentsch.
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