0729 - Spending 30 Minutes a Day Dealing with the Chinuch of your Children - R' Sholom Marozow

00:01 One of the mashpiyim, mashgichim in 770, the bochurim in 770 was Reb Sholom Arozov. He was the son of the famous Chossid, Reb Chaim Arozov. And he was himself was a big talmid chacham, he was a big lam, he was a bochi b'shas, he knew a lot of learning, and he was a very chassidishe Yid. He was a special Yid. So I want to say something about him, something that I experienced. He had a son that learned by us. So once when I came to the Rebbe for Yontev, I don't remember when it was, and it was Shabbos, and I was walking after dabbling home on Kingston Avenue. So I was turning from Eastern Parkway onto Kingston to go to my parents' house. He was coming to 770. So I was on the way, going away from 770. He was coming up Kingston Avenue to Eastern Parkway. He sees me. He says, "Leibel, you're going-- Where are you going?" So I said, "I'm going to my parents' house." He says, "You know what? I'll walk with you." So I'm continuing to walk, and he turned around, and he's walking with me the opposite direction that he wanted to go. And we're walking. What's he talking about? He's talking about his son who's learning in yeshiva. He wants to find out information about how he's doing and what we could do, et cetera, et cetera. And we're walking and walking, and he's talking about it, talking about it, until finally we got to Montgomery Street. And

01:21 I was gonna turn left to Montgomery because my parents lived on Montgomery between Albany and Troy. So I said, "I'm turning here." So he says, "No, no, I'm continuing to walk with you." I said, "But it's the opposite direction where you want to go." "Don't worry, I'm walking with you." So he continues walking with me on Montgomery and continues talking about it. Walks with me on Montgomery all the way till finally we got to my parents' house outside, and I stop, and I said, "Okay, now I'm going to the ho-- into the house." So he says, "Where do your parents live?" I said, "In this house upstairs." "I'm gonna go with you." So he walks with me upstairs, and he continues talking, and he stays upstairs, and it took a long time. Finally, he, he's there, and I wondered, "What's, what's he doing?" He's walk-walked the opposite direction. So after a while in my parents' house, when he continues talking, he says to-- turns around to me, and he says, "What do you think? Did a half-hour already pass since we started talking?" So I said, "I think so." So he said, "Okay, now I could go." So I said, "Well, what do you mean?" So he said, "It says in HaYom Yom that the Rebbe Rashad-- Rebbe Rashab said that just like a mitzvah every day to put on tefillin, it's a mitzvah every day to think a half-hour about the chinuch of your children. So I wanted to fulfill it. So I wanted

02:27 to talk to you for a half-hour about my son. And that's why I walked with you all the way." And when he found, figured out that it's already a half-hour, so that's when he was ready to go back. So I felt and shows what a Chassid is to him. When the Rebbe Rashab said a half-hour, meant a half-hour, and he spent that day a half-hour to talk about his son, even though it meant to walk the opposite direction, et cetera, et cetera, because this is what a real Chassid is.