I was lucky to have a few warm-hearted friends. One of them was a Rabbi, Yehoshua Wolf. He had been a rabbi in Berlin; I remember hearing of him there. *
Yehoshua Wolf was a man who had two left hands. He couldn't do any manual work passably so he spent his time studying. As a result he was ridiculed by some of our members [of kibbutz Franeker], but I respected him. To me he was a learned man with a great reservoir of knowledge.
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Besides working and learning how to farm, I took all the courses in religion offered by Rabbi Wolf in the evenings. We studied Mishnah, the oral common law, and Gemara, debates of the common law, and also Jewish history. Every Shabbat we discussed the Biblical portion of the week. Rabbi Wolf was a gifted teacher and, because of his association with us, I had a rare opportunity to learn.
Morris Schnitzer: My three selves, pages 35 and 45