You always were the wise one. Yet you hid all of your greatness in a shrewd cloak of humor and mucking around. You were very serious yet never took anything too seriously. My eyes are open and I promise to take everything I learned from you and apply it to my life

Ari was pretty much always the smartest person in the room. For anyone else, that fact would have been a defining character trait. Not for Ari. It's not that he didn't care about his intelligence, he just never wore it as a badge. It was just a tool he used to be a better person and a better Jew