What was expected of me as a child?
What was expected of me as a child? That is the ultimate question. That probably molded and created me into the person that I am for good and bad, better and worse. The expectations of me from my father were extremely, extremely high. As I said, he believes that I was reading at the age of one. I learned download and studied download at the age of five. And most people do not do that until an older age. There is a story that when telshe yeshiva came to Chicago to open up a branch. The Roche hayashiva came to Chicago to meet my parents and to ask them for a donation. He, and my father's request, tested me on the Talmud. I was probably 8:00 or 9 years old at the time. And he called me the Chicago Eluy which is the Hebrew word for genius.
— from Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)
In the book
Let me begin where everything began, with thanks: for the parents who taught me, and for all the kindness the Almighty showed a boy who started with very little. Much was expected of me early — my father had me learning at an age when most children are still playing, and a visiting sage once tested me on my studies and called me a young genius — and those expectations, for better and for worse, shaped the whole of who I became. My consuming passion, for as long as I can remember, has been the care of my children and grandchildren, and most of what I learned, I learned in pursuit of that. — Legacy / The Logbook (Legacy/Epilogue)