Word: guterman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twelve students began the long bout of learning with Rabbi Henry Guterman, and twelve sat down with him last week to celebrate with a banquet. But Don Shapiro is the only member of the original group left. He has seen his rabbi's reputation grow: universities everywhere turn to Rabbi Guterman for interpretation of difficult passages in the Law; Manhattan's Yeshiva University conferred an honorary doctorate of divinity on him last year...
Lithuanian-born Rabbi Guterman, 75, who had to cut down on his habitual 15 hours a day of study, describes himself as nothing but a "painter and decorator." Says he: "The paint and the paper are there. I only mix the paint properly and pick out the wallpaper that will harmonize with...
...Guterman's students at Scranton's Hebrew Orthodox Center-from retired Shoe Salesman Morris Greenes, 92, to Accountant Irving Sicherman, 35-look upon their nightly hour of learning as a lot more than mental painting and papering. Every one signed up for his new class, which this week was beginning to study the Talmud all over again...