Like many who live in New York City, he and his family spend the summer in the mountains in the Monticello area, and while there he spends many of his afternoons at a beis medrash where he and other Rabbi/educators learn Torah together. One day a number of summers ago Rabbi Plutchok saw a businessman walk into the beis medrash carrying a ArtScroll Gemara. The man sat down and learned with great enthusiasm. When he had a question he would go and ask others, even if they were younger than him, until he got an answer.