What It’s Really Like To Be Jewish
Introduction
By Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter
AMI Magazine
When Rabbi Shais Taub asked me a few weeks ago if I was interested in meeting a deaf bochur who teaches Torah, I responded with an enthusiastic yes. It is generally believed that because the deaf are unable to communicate vocally, they are cut off from language, and therefore from our great heritage, indeed from the Torah itself. So to be deaf and a teacher of Torah seems to be a contradiction in terms. But that is in fact erroneous.
The deaf have their own language
