0406 - Important to Know Friends of Child

00:00 Our family lived in Cleveland, Ohio, and we, the children, when we got older, our parents sent us to New York to learn the yeshiva there. One time when my father was on yechidus and he was discussing with the Rebbe ben-Nage where to send one of the children, so he mentioned talking about the melamdim there, the Magid Ishir, this place, that place, which one is better. So the Rebbe said to him, b'chal, it's nege to know that when you choose a place for your child to learn, it's more important to see who the chaverim in that kitah are going to be rather than the melamdim, who the melamdim are. This is a lesson in chinuch that you have to pay attention very much to see who the chaverim are, because the chaverim have a great ashpoah on a child, more even than seems like the melamdim have.