Once at yechidus, the Rebbe asked Prof. Paul Rosenbloom where he was sending his son to school.

Prof. Rosenbloom answered that the boy was attending the Manhattan Hebrew Day School.

“Oh, Rabbi Sholom Rephun is the principal there,” the Rebbe responded. “He used to work in Release Time for us.”

When the Rosenblooms described the encounter to Rabbi Rephun, he was amazed. “I never met the Rebbe, or even wrote to him,” he exclaimed. “Yes, I worked for Release Time, but so did over 200 other rabbinical students, and that was 19 years ago. The only way the Rebbe could have known about my involvement was from the reports that Rabbi Hecht’s office submitted. This means that the Rebbe had minor details of reports that were 19 years old at his fingertips!”