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Morris Smith

Aishel recounts some of the highlights of Rabbi Frand's Teshuva Drasha.
(The time between Rosh Hashanna and Yom Kippur is a time to seek repentence or Teshuva - in Hebrew. It is customary for rabbis to give lectures encouraging people to repent. In Baltimore we are blessed with an excellent lecturer, Rabbi Yissachar Frand who gives a talk to the Baltimore Orthodox Community this time of year.)
At the beginning of the talk Rabbi Frand noted that his talk was to be distributed by something called the Torah Communications Network and he credited Morris Smith with founding and running TCN.
Morris Smith is someone who deserves nothing but admiration. Morris Smith was Peter Lynch's designated successor at Fidelity's Magellan Fund. (According to a friend who follows such things, Lynch surrounded himself with people who are serious about religion.) After two years of running the fund, Morris Smith resigned. Here was someone at the height of his profession and he gave it up. Why?
He went to Israel (with his family) to study in Yeshiva.
Morris Smith's thoughts on being Jewish are here.

Posted by SoccerDad at September 24, 2004 1:10 AM