He Risked EVERYTHING So His Friend Could Stay In Yeshiva 😳 #Friendship #Yeshiva #Loyalty

I was done with Yeshiva at around 17 years old. They wanted to kick me out probably around 15. There was a farbrengen in 770. It's a story that I tell my friends. [music] The Rosh Yeshiva at the time, Rabbi Pekarsky, wanted to throw me out. And this was during a farbrengen that he had actually thrown me [music] out of Yeshiva. And my dear friend Hershy Minkowitz, Hershy got up and he started challenging Pekarsky, "How could you [music] throw Stern out of Yeshiva?" And Rabbi Pekarsky said to him, he says, "I have nobody that's going to control him. I have nobody that's [music] going to take responsibility for him." And Hershy said, "It's on me. I'll take care of him. I'll learn with him. I'll do what I have to do." So that bought me about another, I don't know, six months, eight months or so, but I'm forever indebted [music] to having friends like that that are willing to lay down for me and just, you know, go to bat. And that really helped me out.