STANDING TALL

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Throughout his life, Rav Shlomo exhorted his talmidim to “Be big!” His goal was to raise people out of the confines of their smallness, inspiring them to grow by helping them touch their latent potential. From his rebbi, Rav Hutner, he absorbed the Slabodka approach of emphasizing man’s inherent greatness.

He lived by the motto encapsulated by a phrase in Yeshayahu, “l’hachayos ruach shefalim, v’l’hachayos lev nidkaim — to revive the spirits of the lowly, and to revive the hearts of the oppressed,” words which were engraved on his matzeivah. He did not rebuke; he inspired growth, so that the erstwhile struggle was no longer relevant to the elevated neshamah he had cultivated.