In the long tradition of chasidic educators, there are plenty of greats. Were Mendel Futerfas and Itche the Masmid tremendous? Yeah, sure. Do Rabbis Goldberg and Wircberg illuminate Eastern Parkway between Kingston and Albany? Indeed they do. However the works of genius created by Simcha Levenberg shine forth into the world with a brightness and intensity not rivaled since the days when Liadi was no more than a podunk orchard town. The RSiL, as he is most appropriately known, creates an admixture of profound mystical thought, Tolkien prose, and cognitive behavioral therapeutic technique that he then bakes into an intellectual cake which is both delicious and pas yisroel.
Of note, he also correctly identified that Rachel Maddow was a generational talent when she was still on local radio in the Pioneer Valley.
