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It’s rare for great people to turn up in your life at precisely the right moment.

I didn’t recognize it immediately but such was the case when I met Rabbi Neil Kurshan at the Huntington Jewish Center, on Long Island, more than two decades ago.

Newly married and anticipating the birth of a child, I was interested in drawing closer to Judaism.

I’ll always remember his intelligence and serenity when my wife and I met with him in his study just before we joined.

I’d never felt that from a rabbi before, and it only got better as we got closer to him and the congregation.

What makes Rabbi Kurshan yet more extraordinary is that so many people have a story like mine.

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As he retired in June from the post he’s held for 31 years, it was moving to see hundreds of people at his final Shabbat morning service. We all had been profoundly influenced by him, and we knew there were many more like us around the country and beyond.

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