Making It Warm and Light
There are some people who amazingly bring warmth into places most of us can’t imagine.
There are some people who amazingly bring warmth into places most of us can’t imagine.
In the pages that follow, we offer reflections from colleagues and friends who knew Rabbi Moshe Hauer, zt"l, best.
We still need to dream. We need to dream about the eradication of hatred.
Rabbi Hauer used this mindset and framework to believe in everyone’s potential, even those whom others didn’t believe in—or those who didn’t believe in themselves.
That is true leadership. And when such leadership is extinguished, it is like the sun setting at midday.
In the pages that follow, we offer reflections from colleagues and friends who knew Rabbi Moshe Hauer, zt"l, best.
Rabbi Hauer used this mindset and framework to believe in everyone’s potential, even those whom others didn’t believe in—or those who didn’t believe in themselves.
That is true leadership. And when such leadership is extinguished, it is like the sun setting at midday.
Even at that young age, there was an awareness, a sensitivity, a kind of inner depth that suggested he would not only learn but grow in ways that would touch many lives.
Experience teaches that casting stones, whether literal or figurative, at those who espouse offensive ideas rarely changes their hearts or minds.
"And all I could think of was that small vein, open, and spilling out that precious red life fluid."
Sometime in the latter part of the 19th century, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the Brisker Rav and great-grandfather of the Rav, showed samples of his son Chaim’s “Torah” (original interpretations) to Reb Yisrael Salanter. Reb Yisrael commented that in the future, this type of Torah would save the Torah world from the inroads of the Haskalah.
Upon visiting Sderot in 2019 and learning about the myriad physical and emotional challenges affecting the city’s youth as a result of the dire security situation, the Kohns concluded that funding a permanent youth center would be the perfect way to continue Toni’s work and honor her legacy.
Rabbi Hauer used this mindset and framework to believe in everyone’s potential, even those whom others didn’t believe in—or those who didn’t believe in themselves.