Newsgroups: soc.culture.jewish
Subject: Re: sex and Dawud Melekhanu(Yemenite pronunciation)
From: Callec Dradja <GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:56:40 EST
 <H6X82KE@math.fu-berlin.de><92325.140220GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu> 
 <4446@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU><92327.014033CARIAN@auvm.american.edu>
Organization: Penn State University

In article <92327.014033CARIAN@auvm.american.edu>, <CARIAN@auvm.american.edu>
says:
>
>In article <4446@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU>,
>aaldoubo@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Shaqeeqa) says:
>>
>>In article <92325.140220GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu> GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu (Callec
>>Dradja) writes:
>>>
>>>At the time, I was very surprised to hear this especially since he
>>>is an orthodox rabi. What do other people think? Is Rabi Michael
>>>correct or should he take a refresher course on basic Jewish law?
>>
>>Maybe you should check his credentials.  A Rabbi named Michael??
>>
>If the "Rabbi Michael" referred to is Rabbi Michael Harel, who was Hillel
>Director at Penn State in the mid-to-late 1980s, he was an Orthodox
>rabbi in good standing.
>
>Regrettably, he was killed in an automobile accident last week on the West
>Coast, where he was living.
>
>TNZBH
>Rabbi Charles Arian
>CARIAN@american.edu
>
Yes, yes,

that is the Rabi Michael that I was talking about.
I am so, so sorry to hear of his death. I am a christian with
a very strong leaning towards Judaism due to him. I have a profound
love of Israel and Hebrew because of the time that he spent with me.
The love of Judaism that he gave to me is so strong that I seriously
thought of converting and may still do so.

Once, I went to his office to ask him about the services and he personally
taught me the aleph-bet and made a recording of the basic Friday
evening services for me to memorize. Whenever I sing l'kha Dodi
or V'shamru, it is his voice that I think of. If ever there was a
father who taught me Hebrew it was him. He never got to know me
very well and if he were alive today, he would probably not remember
my name but I remember him. I have listened to the tape that he
made for me so many times.

I still have that tape back in my room and it is sad to think that
it is all that I have that remains of him. I had always intended
to write him a letter to thank him for what he did for me but now
it is too late. He will never know that he sowed the seeds in me
that allowed me to travel to Israel and learn Hebrew at Revevim and
Yotvata. He will never know how I got straight A's in my Hebrew minor
at Penn State. He will never know how I have dedicated my life to
returning to Israel to stay.

If anyone can contact his family and tell them how he helped to change
my life, I wish that they would.

                                   Shalom,
                                   Gregson Vaux


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