by Yitzi Weiner | Apr 21, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
In advance of Pesach each year, Rav Avraham Pam joined a distinguished group of Torah Vodaath alumni in overseeing the baking of the matzos which they would use for the Seder. One year, a new bakery opened which employed a number of hiddurim (halachic stringencies) in...
by rabbiweiner | Mar 10, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
Reb Moshe’s sensitivity when offering advice took on many forms. Once, a young man wrote a note to Reb Moshe, seeking his advice in a very delicate, personal problem. Upon receiving the note, Reb Moshe immediately took another piece of paper and wrote a...
by rabbiweiner | Mar 2, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
A poor woman arrived at the door of a kollel family in Eretz Yisrael and asked for a piece of chicken. At first the father of the family resisted because he himself was not doing well financially and every piece of chicken prepared for Shabbos was carefully counted...
by rabbiweiner | Feb 15, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
Nosson Grossman lived in Yerushalayim in 1949. It was very hard to earn a living. He made a livelihood by selling milk door to door. After a while he developed a steady milk route and was able to make a meager but sufficient parnassa to support his family. But...
by rabbiweiner | Feb 10, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
When Rav Dovid Luria went on trial in Russia, falsely accused of treason for sending money to Palestine, under Turkish rule, the death penalty was lurking in the background. When the judges deliberated, they did so in French because no one else in the courtroom...
by rabbiweiner | Jan 29, 2017 | Inspirational Stories
One of Reb Yaakov Kamenetzky’s talmidim related: “Prior to Pesach he was in some doubt as to the kashrus of one of the ingredients of a particular medicine. He made an educated guess based on the substance’s Latin name, but not wanting to rely on ‘himself,...
