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More as a result of happenstance and certainly through no merit of my own, I’ve had the privilege over the years of interacting, and in some cases establishing relationships, with prominent leaders of the Orthodox community. For example, as a teenager I attended a youth group led by R. Emanuel Rackman, which set the stage for my lifetime of learning from him. (Becoming