Yeshiva University High School For Boys - Elchanite Yearbook (New York, NY)

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we fafe lf. Efflflfbil ! by Dr. Benjamin D. Shapiro The ElchaniTe oT I94l is dedicaTed To The memory oT Dr. Bernard Revel, The IaTe leader and presidenT OT The Yeshiva. IT is indeed noT very diTTiculT To panegyrize a man who has made Tor himselT a deTiniTe niche in The hisTory oT Jewry oT The world aT and parTicuIarly in The hisTory oT American Jewry. BuT This is noT my Task. OThers already ex- pressed Their deep senTimenTs abouT Dr. Revel, The greaT TalmudisT, The greaT secular scholar, The leader oT Israel, The greaT propheT oT TradiT- ional learning who was among The TirsT To discern ThaT Jewry could noT sTrike rooTs in The inimical soil oT America unless The Yeshiva could be merged wiTh The I-IascoIa , The basic principle ThaT underlies The Yesh- iva College. I have been asked To depicT This sainTed man as I know him during The pasT I8 years I have been associaTed wiTh him in This insTiTuTion, as The sTudenTs knew him wiThin his oTTice sancTuary, aT Their Siums , and Their Chagigas . I meT Dr. Revel TwenTy years ago, while The Yeshiva was occupying iTs humble birThplace on Gouverneur STreeT. I came To see him because my TaTher had inTormed me ThaT I could be enrolled in The Yeshiva as a sTudenT oT Talmud, while, aT The same Time, I TaughT in The Talmudical Academy I-Iigh School. When I explained To Dr. Revel The purpose oT my visiT, he genTly informed me ThaT my TaTher musT have been misin- Tormed because The I-ligh School required College graduaTes as insTruc- Tors. Seeing chagrin and disappoinTmenT wriTTen on my Tace, he genTIy paTTed me on my back and said, Come back when you are ready To Teach. Perhaps, Then, There will be a place Tor you. NeiTher he nor I had any ThoughT Then ThaT This poliTe rebuTT was really a prophecy, Tor several years laTer, I became one oT The Teachers in The High School. For a long Time ThereaTTer, The person oT Dr. Revel was iusT a myTh To me. I knew him as The presidenT oT The Yeshiva. I heard him deliver many inspiring oraTions on diTTerenT occasions, buT I had no personal conTacT wiTh him. ATTer The Yeshiva moved To iTs new quarTers upTown, The boys would now and Then plead wiTh me, Dr. Shapiro, please posT- pone The TesT in Economics To anoTher day. We are having a Bchina wiTh Dr. Revel in Talmud. We musT have Time To prepare Tor iT. There Page Six ELCI-IANITE