The Lens: Issue 921
| July 26, 2022The Lens at Camp
Being wheelchair-bound during summer vacation is of little hindrance to Rav Reuven Feinstein of the Yeshiva of Staten Island. With the trademark vigor that has marked his decades-long tenure as rosh yeshivah, Rav Reuven arrives at Camp Staten Island in Kerhonkson, New York, to deliver a Chumash shiur.
A joint gelilah at Camp Maayan Midwest. These boys may not be old enough to appreciate a blatt Gemara, but they nevertheless intuit that there’s no activity more joyful, and no value more central, than Torah itself.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 921)
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