When I was twenty-four, I was already going out in the world; in those days you were a finished man at twenty four. I wanted to find a job teaching in a yeshiva. Now, I had a rebbe when I was a young boy and I was his favorite talmid and this rebbe had now become the head of all the Talmud Torahs. I knew that if I would go to him he’d give me a job for sure.
I was sitting in the waiting room to interview and there was another person who came there for the same job. I knew him from my days in the yeshivah. This person never learned; he played ball at the time. I used to learn Tanach while he played ball. I knew Tanach well when I was a boy; I knew lashon hakodesh well. This boy didn’t know anything; he was a ball player. And this man wasn't even his rebbe. He came there to apply for the same job.
He got the job, not I. It was beyond my comprehension. But baruch Hashem because of that I made it to Slabodka. I look back and I thank Hashem that it turned out that way. Hakadosh Baruch Hu rescued me again and again and again.
