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Minneapolis Community Kollel - Rabbi Paysach Krohn

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Author: Minneapolis Community Kollel
Categories: Religion
Tags: religion
Views: 2 · Last viewed: 2026-10-16 00:55 UTC

Short Summary

Main recommendation: Honor and emulate Rabbi and Rebbetzin Giver by following their example of full attention, care for others, and devotion to Torah wherever they lived. The speaker, a friend of the Givers, presents them as role models whose warmth and Torah dedication should remain a lasting guide for the Minneapolis community after their departure.

Key Points

  • Rabbi Giver is praised for vast Torah knowledge combined with a warm, caring personality, including daily calls to the speaker during his illness.
  • The Givers have a long record of raising Yiddishkeit and welcoming both affiliated and unaffiliated Jews, starting with kiruv classes in Baltimore through the Ohr Chaim organization (associated with the Drazen family) for unaffiliated people.
  • Rebbetzin Giver is described as devoted to her husband, agreeing to move from Miami to Minnesota, where she started a school and supported his role as Rosh Yeshiva.
  • The speaker frames "Im ani kan, hakol kan" (if I am here, my whole essence is here) as the model of full attention, which he says the Givers consistently show in conversation.

Details Worth Noting

Concrete instructions: The transcript gives no step-by-step instructions, but it offers implicit guidance: give others your undivided attention rather than checking your phone or looking for other people; stay in touch regularly with friends in need; and, as the speaker says, daven that you merit the Torah's honor and prestige, and care for others as a form of living Torah.

  • The Givers grew up in Monticello, NY; their parents sent Rabbi Giver to grandparents in Hartford, Connecticut, in first grade, and by sixth grade his twin brother Rabbi Zalman joined him there for a Jewish day school education.
  • The twins later studied in Philadelphia, becoming close to Rav Kaminetsky and Rav Kamenetsky, and then in Baltimore, where they were close to Rav Kleinman and Rav Rubin.
  • The Givers spent 25 years in Minneapolis; the speaker describes their departure as a loss that is almost irreplaceable.
  • The video was delivered as a tribute at a Minneapolis Kollel event, with thanks to Rabbi Goldberger, who runs the kollel, for inviting the speaker.

Bottom Line

The Givers' lasting legacy is the way they live Torah through genuine care, full attention to individuals, and devotion to family and community, qualities the speaker urges Minneapolis residents to remember and imitate.