For my teacher Marc H. Ellis who gave me apt advice when I nervously started started teaching in 1997: “Don’t worry about what the students give to you. Just give everything you’ve got to your students.” He himself gave an enormous amount to me.
May his memory be a blessing.
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Marc Ellis and Rabbi Irving Greenberg
Maryknoll, NY
1988
Photo by Mev