Optometrist and His Choice of Clothing - R' Menachem Salasnik

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The opening of this shiur, in Netzoir’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

For the first few years of my married life, I was living in an apartment not too far away from the Yeshurun shul in Edgware, where the late Dayan Gershon Lopian's shul was there of. I'd spent a few years in Yeshiva. I then qualified as an optometrist [music] and now was working as an eye doctor in a nearby practice. Now, I'm not a morning person. I find [music] it very difficult to get out of my cozy bed. On the other hand, I wanted to daven with a minyan, but getting up an hour early before shul to get myself ready was before shul to get myself ready was [music] too much for me. So, what I used to do is I used to roll out of bed, put sweatpants and a hoodie on top of my pajamas and stumble, groggy and still half asleep, into shul every morning. [music] And this carried on for a few weeks. I got to know the Dayan. He had a great sense of humor. He would chat to me a little bit about my life and who I was. And this continues until something happened that made a massive impact [music] on my life. At the end of davening one morning, the Dayan came over to me, put his arm round my shoulders and said in a kind voice,

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1. 0:07For the first few years of my married life, I was living in an apartment not…
2. 0:37before shul to get myself ready was [music] too much for me. So, what I used…
3. 1:08shoulders and said in a kind voice, "Someone as great as you shouldn't be turning up…
4. 1:39the time. And this great Dayan, this man, could see greatness in me. I mean, I…
5. 2:11go and you're going to work as an eye doctor, then you put on your suit?"…
6. 2:41give them a vision of greatness, a vision of their greatness. The Gemara tells us that…

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