Memories of a great rabbi

Just before Passover Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold died at the age of 92. The longtime director of Harvard Hillel, he had grown up in a Hasidic community in central Poland and was sometimes referred to as the Harvarder rebbe — a semi-joke that conveyed a truth about the man. I first got to know him in the spring of my sophomore year when I was given the job of instituting Passover seders in the college's residential houses. "But it's going to cost some money,"

Just before Passover Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold died at the age of 92. The longtime director of Harvard Hillel, he had grown up in a Hasidic community in central Poland and was sometimes referred to as the Harvarder rebbe — a semi-joke that conveyed a truth about the man. I first got to know him in the spring of my sophomore year when I was given the job of instituting Passover seders in the college's residential houses. "But it's going to cost some money," I informed him. "Don't worry about that," he…