Chumash in the Dumpster - R. Don Jarashow - TorahAnytime.com

You heard of Rabbi Avigdor Miller? Avigdor Miller, unbelievable. One of the greatest thinkers [music] in the past century. He recounts a story that the way he started his path >> [music] >> in learning Torah it all started he was walking in the street he found a Chumash. Where did he find it? Not on the table of Beit Midrash. Not even on the floor outside in the street. He found it in the garbage dump. He peeked at it and he saw Hebrew letters. He opened it up and inside it said Fred. F R E D. Takes it home to his mother. He says, "Ma, what is this?" She looks through it. She says, "This is This is the Torah. This is the Chumash." Chumash. Right then and there, his mother encouraged him, "Go get yourself a Hebrew-English dictionary." She bought it for him. And from there he emerged to be one of the greatest thinkers, Rosh Yeshiva, of our time. Cuz he learned the entire Torah and the Imrei Kodesh to him all from that Hebrew-English dictionary. And one thing led to the next to the next until he became one of the greatest people. Look at him. Just his whole embodiment, his whole character, his middos, his Torah, his hashkafah, just brilliant. >> [music] >> Just literally in awe of it. But it all started. Came home. He's given some money to buy a dictionary. And a forest blossomed from there. It wasn't his mother. It wasn't that taught him the Torah. It wasn't that sit down. It was all God. But it was from the house. It was from the home. And from there emerges greatness.