Talk:Ephraim Greenblatt

A peacock is a bird, but he was not a chicken
Of the 27 words listed at Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch, only one had been used: GREAT. TWICE!!
 * The first was in "greatgrandchildren." (with citation).
 * The second was in a quotation of a blessing/prediction, given to Rabbi Greenblatt when he was age 19. Variations of the blessing/prediction were cited; one was from Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer, who had given him rabbinical ordination.

That's it. None of the other 26 PEACOCK words were used.

Was Greenblatt "chicken" to go off first to New York, and then when "sent" from there - to the relative "wilds" of Memphis, Tennessee? Yes, he was. One of the writeups about him included that, having traveled for 30 hours from NY to Memphis, HE CAME BACK. Ready to give up. But he was given another blessing - from Rabbi Moshe Feinstein. I left out this, and also the Madoff part - how this was, seeming - for him - a blessing in disguise regarding the part that he would return. Who else, having been at the center of marrying off grandchildren would leave the USA to go back to a place to live in Israel that couldn't house even a modest fraction of his 26,000 book library.

Peaccock? Except for the story that I added (by American-born Rabbi Ari Kahn, one of the sons of American-born Rabbi Pinchas Kahn) - when pushed by the Peacock hatnote - I left out the stories that would make for the beginnings of a book. I'll work on this some more, but from what I left out, this has the makings of EAGLE, not peacock. Pi314m (talk) 03:22, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

26,000 books
Seeking to see if 26,000 books is "GREAT" (the only PEACOCK word, per above), I found:
 * Author James Patterson donating 26,000 books to Palm Beach County middle school students
 * (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/education/fl-reg-schools-patterson-book-giveaway-20170426-story.html)
 * The article said: "He said he did it to prevent 'summer slide,' when students’ academic skills tend to deteriorate." (at a cost of $500,000; the 70 year old author is said to have earned more than 60 times as much in 2017. His publisher said Patterson wrote 140 books to date).

Rabbi Greenblatt build a library of 26,000 books during his 58 years in Memphis, as noted in the article. Peacock? Pi314m (talk) 04:16, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

Peacock plucked
Rather than deal with his 26,000 book library, I've shelved the English version, ran the Google Translator on the Hebrew Wiki article, fixed it up, copied some citations and details, and. . . let's see if this flies. Pi314m (talk) 06:48, 20 July 2018 (UTC)