Geshmak is a well known Yiddish word. It means fun. It means enjoyable. It means exciting. It means…geshmak! And that is how I would describe my third-grade rebbi, Rabbi Peretz Dinovitz, zt”l.

He was kind, warm, positive, energetic, and always upbeat. When I think back to my year in his class over 25 years ago, what I remember most is how he made each class so much fun and exciting!

As a top notch karate expert (at least that was our impression), he would walk the halls between class and recess, and to our absolute amazement – quick background: there were two sets of lockers, a lower level and an upper level, and the upper level lockers we could hardly reach – he’d do high karate kicks to close any high lockers that were left open. We watched our rebbi walking the halls with his nifty karate kicks and punches in the air. How cool is that!