From Reb Shlomo's forward to his father's book, "The Carlebach Tradition".
My father taught me in a thousand ways.
I remember sitting on my fathers knee as he taught me "Aleph- Beth." I remember him holding my hand as we walked through our house on Shabbos singing "Sholem Aleichem". I remember running behind him going to shul. I remember him standing before hundreds of people, speaking to them, opening their hearts -- whenever my father spoke, something magic happened in the room.
I remember him walking in the street greeting people with so much love that he changed sourness to smiles.
I remember my father learning every moment of his life I never saw him without a Sefer. I remember his joy when things went well and I remember him hoping, with great trust in haShem, when things were bad. But most of all I remember that my father planted deeply in my heart through his example, the true meaning of being a Jew.
Commenting on the passage "vayahi cahayom haze v'yavo habaysa la'asos m'lahto, "And it came to pass on a certain day, when he went into the house to do his work" and Potiphar's wife asked him "be with me" and "he fled and ran out," our Rabbis in the Tractate Sotah say "that Joseph entered the house to yield to her, but "boso shaa ba'asa dyokno shel aviv v'niraso lo bahalon", "his father's face appeared to him", and he conquered the temptation. According to tradition, at the moment of temptation, everything a person has ever learned has no meaning. If this is so, how was Joseph able to conquer the temptation? "Because he saw his father's face." Of what significance is it that Joseph saw his father? On the passage V'Yisroel ohav es Yosef mikol banov" "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children" Rashi comments "kol ma shelamad miShem v'Ever mosor lo", "that everything Jacob learned from Shem and Eber, he gave over to Joseph." What was it that Jacob learned?
The Holy Ishbitzer explains it this way: Jacob learned with Shem and Eber twice -- once before he received the Divine Blessing, and a second time, before he left the Holy Land to work for Laban. The first time he learned the Torah of how to be a Jew in Israel, the second time he learned the Torah of how to be a Jew in exile. Because Shem had lived during the Flood and the destruction of the physical world, and Eber had witnessed the destruction of the spiritual world at Babel, theirs was a teaching of how to continue being a Jew in the face of destruction, of exile, even when the whole world falls apart, even if you forget what is right or wrong, and life becomes meaningless. This was the Torah that Jacob gave over to Joseph. It was this teaching that shone through the face of Jacob.
We have been blessed with many great teachers, but they all teach the first Torah. Only a few have been chosen to teach the second Torah to Israel. My father one of the last of Germany's great Rabbis. He was destined to be a Rabbi and teacher in the most tragic period of our people. A great orator, he put his heart and soul into his every word. He implanted Yiddishkeit in the hearts of thousands of people; with a smile, with a handshake, with his words, with a light which eminated from his soul.
Those who met him will never forget him. Those whom he touched had the strength to remain Jews even when their world fell apart and was destroyed.