After much thought and research, he chose to be a teacher and found a warm, welcoming home at Kol Tzofayich.

“I realized that the connection that a person has to the Torah depends on the teacher,” he said. “If a person has a good teacher, he has a good connection to the Torah.”

He admits that people often choose not to be a teacher for various reasons, but that it’s an essential profession.

“In our world people often think more of high-tech or things that make more money. And of course when we talk about arachim (values) and theologia, it’s very important to our chinuch, to pass it over to the next generation — Torah, mesorah and yirat shamayim,” Rabbi Reicher said.

Since most of his family are teachers, at first he hesitated taking the same path. He went to his rebbe, Rabbi Adin Steinsalz, and asked for guidance. “So he said to me, ‘You know, you don’t always have to do the opposite. Sometimes you can do what everybody else does.’ He was trying to tell me that maybe it’s a good thing for me to be a teacher.”

What he loves most about teaching is getting to work with and talk with teenagers, and to be a role model.

“I believe that the most important things that come through chinuch are not what you say in the class. It’s all about how you behave and what kind of person you are.“