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The Spilled Beans Dear Editor, I am very hurt by my mother-in-law at the moment.

I just had a baby and my brother-in-law is getting married in a few weeks. My mother-in-law generously offered to give all her married children a set amount of money towards a gown, and if we Ă&#x20AC;QG VRPHWKLQJ FKHDSHU WKDQ WKH DPRXQW VKH JLYHV we can use the rest of the money for any other ZHGGLQJ H[SHQVHV 6KH KDV D FRORU FRGH WKDW VKH wants me to stick to, but I told her from day one WKDW ,¡P SUHVVHG IRU WLPH DQG P\ ZHLJKW LV VWLOO Ă XFWXDWLQJ VR , FDQ¡W EH SLFN\ , KDYH WR WDNH ZKDW , Ă&#x20AC;QG , DFWXDOO\ KDYH PRUH WKDQ RQH RSWLRQ IRU ZKDW WR ZHDU , DOUHDG\ KDYH D JRZQ IURP D SUHYLRXV ZHGGLQJ WKDW LV WKH ULJKW FRORU EXW VR IDU , GRQ¡W Ă&#x20AC;W LQWR LW 7KH VHFRQG RSWLRQ LV WKLV , KDYH D UHODWLYH who works with gowns, and she has one gown that LV EHDXWLIXO ZKLFK VKH VD\V VKH FDQ Ă&#x20AC;[ WR Ă&#x20AC;W PH LQ WLPH 6KH LV ZLOOLQJ WR JLYH LW WR PH IRU D JUHDW SULFH so that I have money left over to buy clothing for sheva brachos. But my mother-in-law is adamant WKDW , QRW ZHDU P\ UHODWLYH¡V JRZQ )LUVW VKH NHSW saying it was because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the wrong color, but now it came out that she thinks the gown is too outdated, while the rest of the family is wearing PRUH XSVFDOH DQG IDVKLRQDEOH JRZQV I have looked everywhere but I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t found anything better. The clock is ticking, and I have to decide this week whether or not to have that gown Ă&#x20AC;[HG LQ WLPH <HVWHUGD\ , FDOOHG P\ PRWKHU LQ ODZ DQG WULHG WR H[SODLQ UHDVRQDEO\ WKDW , KDYH QRWKLQJ else, and the gown is really not as old fashioned as VKH WKLQNV 6KH KDVQ¡W HYHQ VHHQ WKH JRZQ VKH MXVW PDGH XS KHU PLQG EDVHG RQ WKH GHVFULSWLRQ , JDYH

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disturbed that she called it â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;herâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; gown. I am trying to accommodate her because sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s covering the cost, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a grown adult. Does her cash give her the right to tell me what to wear? I also felt like sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s threatening me by saying she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give me the money - a gift that was already offered, and one WKDW DOO WKH RWKHU GDXJKWHUV LQ ODZ DOUHDG\ VSHQW unless I wear what she wants.

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he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really like the current yeshiva, nor does he SDUWLFXODUO\ OLNH KLV UHEEH DQG URVK \HVKLYD :KDW would you do in this case? < 3 The Kishke Dear Editor, , KDYH EHHQ ZRQGHULQJ DERXW SULFH\ FKLOGUHQ¡V FORWKLQJ VWRUHV RU PRUH SUHFLVHO\ WKH ZRPHQ ZKR VKRS WKHUH ,¡P WU\LQJ WR XQGHUVWDQG WKH PHQWDOLW\ ,¡P QRW WDONLQJ DERXW QRUPDO FORWKLQJ H[SHQVHV EXW about stores where a kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shirt is around $100+, or a tiny infantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s t shirt is $50+. , DVN WKLV UHVSHFWIXOO\ ZLWK FXULRVLW\ DQG fascination, and without judgment. I know that some can afford it. Others really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, but they do so DQ\ZD\ 6R , ZRQGHU ZKHQ ZRPHQ VSHQG KXQGUHGV RI GROODUV SHU RXWĂ&#x20AC;W RQ EDE\ DQG FKLOGUHQ¡V FORWKHV what are their thoughts? And why?

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no trouble discerning what the world around us most reveres. To believe in G-d requires us to reject all the false

because it attributes wickedness to the Almighty.

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LETS DISCUSS IT SXUSRVH RI DOO RXU HIIRUWV The burgeoning world of technology offers no rest or time for LQWURVSHFWLRQ 7KH XQFHDVLQJ EDUUDJH RI HPDLOV WH[WLQJ DQG VXUĂ&#x20AC;QJ DUH ZHDSRQV RI PDVV GLVWUDFWLRQ &DQ we ever call a halt to their seemingly unlimited control of our lives? The ODZ RI 6KDEERV WHOOV XV LW LV QRW RQO\ SRVVLEOH EXW PDQGDWRU\ 6KDEERV not only enables us to become reacquainted with Hashem, but with ourselves as well.

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threats to the survival of civilization were clearly addressed and outlawed in the sixth commandment. <RX VKDOO QRW FRPPLW DGXOWHU\ 7KHUH ZDV D WLPH ZKHQ SHRSOH understood that marriage meant commitment, and vows of mutual Ă&#x20AC;GHOLW\ ZHUH WKH JUHDWHVW JXDUDQWRUV RI OLIHORQJ KDSSLQHVV 7KHUH ZDV D WLPH ZKHQ SHRSOH XQGHUVWRRG WKDW kiddushin, the Hebrew word for marriage, meant holiness. It was the

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LETS DISCUSS IT In the morning Rabbi Elimelech started crying bitterly. ´%URWKHU ZK\ GR \RX FU\"µ DVNHG Rabbi Zushe. ´+RZ FDQ , QRW FU\" ,W LV WLPH WR daven morning services, and yet we cannot, because there is human waste LQ WKLV URRP µ 5DEEL =XVKH FKHHUIXOO\ UHVSRQGHG ´7KH VDPH * G ZKR FRPPDQGHG XV WR SUD\ DOVR FRPPDQGHG XV QRW WR SUD\ under these circumstances. On other GD\V ZH IXOÃ&#x20AC;OO +LV ZLOO E\ SUD\LQJ 7RGD\ ZH ZLOO IXOÃ&#x20AC;OO +LV ZLOO E\ QRW SUD\LQJ µ He took Rabbi Elimelech by the arm and they began to dance around the bucket, rejoicing that here too WKH\ FRXOG IXOÃ&#x20AC;OO WKH ZLOO RI +DVKHP Their joy was so infectious that soon all the inmates were dancing and singing with the two holy men.

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eeling overwhelmed by the amount of guests coming for Yom Tov? Worried about cooking and cleaning for a large group? Here’s some perspective — the Klatzko family hosts thirty guests for Shabbos on any given Shabbos — and that’s a quiet week. An average week finds between eighty and a hundred guests at their table. An above average week…

I’ll leave that to your imagination.

The old adage, “If there’s room in the heart there’s room in the home,” has never been truer than it is in the Klatzko house in Monsey, New York.

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His ten-year-old was busy braiding some challos… about twenty-¿YH SRXQGV of them.

From Meshulachim to Shabbos Guests So how did a boy from Cleveland, Ohio, and a girl from Boro Park become akin to Avraham Avinu and Sarah Imeinu?

“My wife and I got this from our parents,” reflects Rabbi Benzion Klatzko. “We’re both from very large families, as well as having adopted siblings. In my parents’ house the door was always open. We constantly had poor people and meshulachim coming in and out. My mother treated them royally; she called them ‘gentlemen’ and often fed them elaborate dinners before they continued their collecting. My father would buy new shoes in all sizes. When poor people came, he would discreetly look at their shoes, and if they looked shabby he would bring them new shoes from the basement.”

His in-laws, the Juravels, ran a similar establishment. The door was always open and people came to visit and then stayed, sometimes permanently. One woman, Molly, stayed for ten years. The Juravels also had a clothing gemach in their basement, discreetly titled the Juravel “Boutique.” People came to “shop” and left with new clothes, sans payment.

Still, it’s a long way from that to eighty or more guests at the Shabbos table.

president of Warner Bros. studio. And when another producer won an Oscar he was convinced that it was because we davened for his success.”

Rabbi Klatzko’s lack of knowledge of American celebrities was an advantage in being mekarev nonreligious Hollywood Jews. “I had no idea who many of these people were, so I wasn’t star-struck, I was

have seudas Shabbos under the stars.”

Campus Kiruv and Poolside Shiurim The Klatzkos’ evolution to mega– hachnasas orchim began early in their married life, when they lived in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

“We didn’t have a big house there, but we still managed to fit about thirty guests.”

The Klatzkos later ended up in sunny Los Angeles, California, where they lived on the UCLA campus and did kiruv.

“We met a lot of famous Jews there. I used to give a poolside shiur in Hollywood in a huge mansion that was owned by the vice

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very down-to-earth with them. I think they enjoyed it.”

The salubrious weather also enabled record-breaking seudah attendance.

“In LA we rented a house that had a huge basketball court. We were able to fit a hundred and fifty guests out there. We would

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So how do you feed over a hundred guests? Enlist the help of your clearly angelic spouse and kids, of course.

On the day I spoke to Rabbi Klatzko, his ten-year-old was busy braiding some challos…about twenty-five pounds of them.

His seventeen-year-old daughter, Shira, is also a tremendous help. “We make it into a family activity, and everyone has a good time together.”

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equipped kitchen.

“We have three dishwashers, two refrigerators, three full-sized freezers, an industrial-sized oven, and a second regularsized oven.

“The community also sometimes helps us out. The take-out place sometimes brings over cholent for our guests to have when they come on erev Shabbos.”

But mostly, the Klatzkos do it all on their own with a volunteer that sometimes comes to help. Shabbos food shopping is done on Sunday, and cooking begins after that.

The Klatzkos had a fire in their house a number of years ago. When they rebuilt

their house, they built it with eight bedrooms, plus what Rabbi Klatzko calls “the dorm,” which can sleep fourteen. “The rest go to the neighbors. They’re very gracious and even want to host meals as well.”

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Reaching Out to All Jews What kind of kiruv can you do in Monsey?

Kiruv of all kinds, says Rabbi Klatzko.

“We don’t just have nonreligious Jews coming, but Jews from every walk of life.

We have kids at risk, Chassidim that are off

the derech, kids with family issues who need a place to be. Singles. People in shidduchim.

You name it.”

The logistics necessary to host so many are mind-boggling, but Rabbi Klatzko keeps that in perspective.

“Food preparation is important, but not as important as a pleasant atmosphere. Forget the time-consuming, fancy desserts and focus on your love and acceptance of other Jews,” he advises.

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“If you try to ‘do kiruv’ you’re not going to do kiruv.

You just need to want to do chesed for klal Yisrael.” of eleven have time to give attention to his children at the Shabbos table when a hundred guests clamor for attention, too?

“The children are front and center and sit right near me. I make sure to engage them.

By the third or fourth course they’re usually off playing, and then we get a nice discussion going with our guests.”

What about the tznius issues that can come up when nonreligious girls come over?

“I’ve found them to be very respectful,” Rabbi Klatzko says. “Even when we lived on campus, the students were respectful and sensitive to our values.”

Shabbos Match-Making Of late, Rabbi Klatzko’s activities have spread beyond his Shabbos table out into cyberspace. His recently launched website, www.Shabbat.com, is making kiruv and hachnasas orchim more user-friendly than

ever.

“One of the things that FFB’s often have an issue with in doing kiruv is the fear of approaching someone who is completely uninterested and having their invitation rejected. The website takes care of that problem.”

On the website people sign up to be Shabbos guests and are able to choose families who have signed up to be hosts. Hosts can also proactively look for Shabbos guests. The would-be guests provide references so hosts can verify their credentials. It’s a win/win situation for everyone.

How has the response to the website been?

“Unbelievable. Right now we have nearly ten thousand people registered on the site with five hundred invitations a week!

And we’re just starting out!”

The website offers hosts in fifty countries across the globe and has the haskamah of rabbanim such as Rabbi Hillel Weinberg of Aish HaTorah, Rabbi Noach Orlowek, and Rabbi Aharon Feldman, rosh hayeshivah of Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. In addition, many well-known personalities have registered as hosts on Shabbat.com, including Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zweibel of Agudath Yisroel and Assemblyman Dov Hikind. They’ve recently expanded the matching service to shidduchim as well and have made singles’ Shabbosos. They’ve made fourteen shidduchim so far.

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Expect the Unexpected Hosting people can yield unexpected results, Rabbi Klatzko says. “We once hosted a Jewish boy who was becoming frum and asked to bring along his non-Jewish girlfriend whom he claimed wanted to convert. I was skeptical, since I’ve heard that story too many times to count. But she asked me for reading material on Judaism. I gave her a huge stack of reading, never expecting to hear back from her. Surprisingly, she kept coming back for more. She eventually converted, but broke up with the boy because he wasn’t Torahdik enough for her! She’s now married to a wonderful, ehrlich ben Torah.”

So how do you know if the guests you’re hosting are actually Jewish?

“The guests need to provide references, attesting to their background. But in the worst case, all you’ve done is given a non-Jew a piece of chicken.”

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You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need special kiruv skills to host other Jews, Rabbi Klatzko explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you try to â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;do kiruvâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not going to do kiruv. You just need to want to do chesed for klal Yisrael. â&#x20AC;?

Rabbi Klatzko feels a great sense of mission about this. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The potential of what we can do for klal Yisrael is limitless. I want everyone to do this mitzvah. I like to spread the love.â&#x20AC;?

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he little boys quickly formed a train, each with his hands on the shoulders of the boy in front of him. They lurched into motion, running madly around the periphery of the shul as throngs of men danced in concentric rings around the bima. Some of the men carried sifrei Torah, adorned in silver crowns and YHOYHW ÂżQHU\ 2WKHUV FDUULHG their small children on their shoulders.

The men stomped and danced to the sound of their own hearty singing. As one song ended, another one caught on, and no one wanted to stop, despite the gabbaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s frequent request to â&#x20AC;&#x153;move things along.â&#x20AC;?

It was Simchas Torah, and the men were not willing to let go of it.

In the bustling womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s section, mothers strained to keep an eye on their young children, who dashed in and out of the circles of dancing men.

Sitting among the local women was a girl name Rochel, one of a group of teenage girls who were Sukkos guests at the home of Rabbi Benzion Klatzko.

Dressed in their fashionable best, the girls watched the frenetic scene with glee; this was an experience unlike any they had encountered thus far in their intrepid journey into Orthodox Judaism. They didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t NQRZ ZKHUH WR ORRN ÂżUVW Âą DW the adorable babies that seemed to be cradled in just about every pair of female arms; at the little children clutching their candy and weaving their way comfortably through the crowd; or at the men, for whom

this date was most definitely the bursting supernova of the Jewish calendar year.

To Rochel, the spirit of the night was an injection of life itself.

She had never known such happiness, even in her own ostensibly Torah-observant upbringing. She sat quietly, taking in this elixir slowly, feeling it soothe her ailing soul. $OO DW RQFH DV WKH ÂżIWK hakofah came to an end, the girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; eyes snapped into sharp focus. Their host, Râ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Benzion Klatzko, stood up on a chair in front of the bima, clutching a minature sefer Torah in his hands. He had a story to tell, and the men, women and children packed into the shul were eager to hear it. Rochel strained to hear every word of the tale, for she knew that it would speak to her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every week, in my home, I have the privilege of hosting dozens of people for Shabbos meals. Most of them are college students who are Jewish but have never had the chance to experience a real Shabbos.

They come from all kinds of backgrounds and all kinds of places across the country, and they join together at my home and get a real taste of what Shabbos is about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only thing is, most of them are uncomfortable about going to a shul where

everyone’s going to be in hats and jackets. They’d rather stay at my house and wait until I come home. The drawback to that is that they never have the chance to see the beauty of a real Shabbos davening. So I decided that the best thing to do would be to buy my own sefer Torah and aron kodesh for my living room. That way, I could have the davening at home, and they could take part in it and still feel comfortable.

Plus, it would give many of them a chance for an aliya, some who haven’t had one since their bar mitzva. And there are those that didn’t even have a bar mitzva and have never been called up to the Torah in their lives.

“The question was, how ZRXOG , HYHU ¿QG D NRVKHU sefer Torah at a decent price? And an aron kodesh would also be a big investment. So it seemed that, short of a miracle, my idea would be impossible to pull off. However Hashem doesn’t just perform miracles for you. You have to do your part and hope that Hashem will take care of the rest.

“So I opened up the papers and looked around to see if anyone had a sefer Torah for sale. And believe it or not, someone did. I immediately called the number and on the other end of the phone was an elderly man from Philadelphia who said he had a very small sefer Torah that he was selling. It was 11 inches tall.

“I asked him where he got it, and he told me that his father had been a rabbi of a shul in the Catskills which eventually died out. They auctioned everything off, and the sefer Torah was the only thing they kept. It had been sitting in his closet unused for 50 years, and now he felt it was time to sell that as well.

“Although he wanted quite a bit of money for it and the price was a bit steep for me, I told him that I would like to take a look at it. He agreed

The aron kodesh that had been in the hands of a SULHVW

“I didn’t know what to say, but I certainly appreciated his incredible gift. I realized that this was a Torah that had been basically homeless for the past 50 years. There was no one to read it, hold it or keep it properly, and now Hashem gave the Torah a home, and would hopefully bring this lonely Jew back in the near future as well.

“Now, what about an aron kodesh? That’s a story of its own. I found an on-line ad for an old Jewish artifact, a Jewish chest. The sellers weren’t Jewish, but they had bought it from a priest who told them it to come to Monsey to show me the was of Jewish origin.

Torah.

“When I opened the on-line “A few days later Mr. Foreman pictures of the chest, I saw before came. He showed me a beautiful sefer me what seemed to be a beautifully Torah -- over 200 years old but in crafted aron kodesh.

It was small, so perfect condition. He asked me why it wouldn’t be able to hold a regular I needed it, and I explained about the sized Torah, but would be perfect for baalei teshuva and my idea to enable the Torah we had.

But when I viewed them to daven at my home, where a picture of the top of the aron, I they would be comfortable. almost fainted.

There was a large “He stared at me for a moment cross attached to it.

All of a sudden, seeming very moved by the idea that this Torah would help people come I was not at all sure that this was an closer to Hashem. All of a sudden, he item of Jewish origin.

Suddenly I noticed a small plaque started crying – I mean really crying at the bottom of the Aron. I asked with tears streaming down his face. the sellers to send me a photo of I was trying to get him to talk, but the plaque which appeared to have he literally couldn’t get any words hebrew writeing on it. They showed out. Finally, he explained. You see, me a picture of the bottom of the aron he had drifted away from Judaism where there was a clear inscription and married a Budist woman. This in Hebrew that said “Hinei lo yanum sefer Torah was his only connection, velo yishon Shomer Yisroel” (Behold, and at this point, he felt so cut off the guardian of Yisroel niether sleeps that he thought he might as well sell nor slumbers.

Tehillim:121), which it. But when he found out that this Torah would help reconnect people proved that the item must be Jewish. to Hashem, he wanted to give it to The cross upon closer examination, me as a gift. In this way, he felt he they said, was a separate piece that would perhaps have the merit to be had been attached. I realized that UHFRQQHFWHG WRR DQG ¿QG KLV ZD\ the priest who bought this aron must have made that addition. I was deeply home at last. moved, and was certain that the hand

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Of Hashem was clearly guiding me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I bought the aron and had it delivered to my home. The cross was removed and I marveled at the verse that was inscribed. I have never seen this particular verse inscribed on an aron kodesh before. And I realized that there was a message here. It was as if Hashem were saying that although this aron was lost for many years, He would never forget about it. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t UHVW XQWLO LW ÂżQDOO\ ZDV EURXJKW KRPH WR Jewish hands. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dear friends, look at what we have here. A Torah that was neglected IRU VR PDQ\ \HDUV ZDV ÂżQDOO\ JLYHQ a home in an aron kodesh that had been in the hands of a priest. Yet the message was clear that Hashem would never give up on them. He had not forgotten about this lost aron and Torah VFUROO DQG ÂżQDOO\ WKH WZR RI WKHP ZHUH brought together and can now be used to bring young men and woman back to their Father in Heaven as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Torah has not been danced with for over 50 years, and now we have the chance to welcome it home.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s give it the welcome it deserves.â&#x20AC;?

As if on cue, the entire shul erupted in singing and dancing. The tiny sefer Torah was in the center of it all, VRDNLQJ XS WKH RYHUĂ&#x20AC;RZLQJ ORYH DQG honor it had been missing for decades.

It was no longer locked away, unused and untouched on this holiday meant for rejoicing. It was where it belonged, in the center of it all Later that night, Benzion brought the Torah home and secured it inside the aron kodesh in his living room.

He and his family at last sat down for their seudah, which they were sharing with Rochel and her group. They had been together throughout the week of Sukkos and by this point, they had melded into a warm, comfortable family.

To Rochel, the Klatzkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open hospitality seemed like a good dream from which she would soon awaken.

Wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the family sick of their guests by now? If so, they certainly didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t betray any such feelings. Instead,

Rochel felt that she and her friends were more loved and appreciated with each passing day. The girls had become like an auxiliary troop of teenage daughters, babysitting for the children and helping with the kitchen chores as if they belonged here in this wonderful home.

It was not just the sense of tranquility and warmth that Rochel relished.

It was the awesome, indescribable feeling of dwelling in close proximity to the sefer Torah. Each night, when the house was quiet, she had come downstairs to stand within its aura of holiness. There, she had spoken her heart to Hashem, praying that the sweetness of this home would be hers, in her own life, some day. These were WKH ÂżUVW SUD\HUV KHU OLSV KDG XWWHUHG IRU many years. The bitterness of her own IDPLO\ KRPH Âą WKH FRQVWDQW ÂżJKWLQJ the blame and anger that accompanied every Shabbos and Yom Tov, the storm clouds that threatened to blow through the front door at any moment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; had acted like a razor-sharp wire-cutter, severing her connection to Hashem.

Here at the Klatzkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home, she could feel the connection being mended; the power was sputtering back into her being, and once again beginning to Ă&#x20AC;RZ Benzionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s story of the sefer Torah and aron kodesh added a vast new dimension to the emotional journey the week at the Klatzkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s had initiated in Rochelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart. She could barely wait until tonight, the last night of Yom Tov, when she would take her place once more before the aron kodesh.

The meal ended late, and at last, the contented but exhausted group headed to their rooms for a nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sleep. Rochel, lay in bed, eyes wide open, with the sound of her heart beating in her ears. She waited a long time, perhaps an hour or more, until she was certain that no one in the house remained awake. She slipped out of bed and tip-toed into the living room. There stood the aron kodesh, as if it had been waiting for her. She sat down on a chair in front of the aron

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and began thinking about the story of its arrival in the Klatzkoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home.

She thought of its exile, and she thought of herself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My dear, holy sefer Torah, you know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like to be neglected. You know how it feels to live with people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see the beauty in you and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand what you are worth. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived that way my whole life, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lived like that so much longer. Fifty whole years you stood there and no one kissed you or carried you or looked inside you to see what was there. But youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve given me hope, because even after 50 years, look what happened! Look what a night you just had! Everyone hugged you and kissed you. Everyone wanted to dance with you. You were the star of the show. Hashem doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sleep. He keeps watch over His people, and Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s keeping watch over me. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Please, Hashem, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m begging you, may I be like this sefer Torah.

I know there is still kedushah in me.

Please let me hold onto it, just like this Torah did. And when the time is right, bring me a husband who will honor me and love me the way a wife should be honored. Let me have a home thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happy, and holy, and full of children and guests and kindness, just like this KRPH 3OHDVH +DVKHP ÂżQG PH WRR and bring me home.â&#x20AC;?

Rochel had reached a new landmark in her journey. In her nightly visits to the aron kodesh, she had learned how to pray. But on this last night, her prayers reached a new, exalted level, for they were powered with a brand new fuel â&#x20AC;&#x201C; hope and faith that they would indeed, some day soon, be answered. /LIH LV IXOO RI WHVWV Âą D GLIÂżFXOW WLPH in yeshiva, at work, in shidduchim, with health, children or parnaasa. That is when it is time to remember, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hinei lo yanum vlo yishan shomer Yisroel.â&#x20AC;?

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His mother would say to him, ´0HLU¡O P\ FKLOG VHH WKDW \RX VWXG\ well and learn Torah, because every day that goes by with no Torah OHDUQHG LV VRPHWKLQJ SUHFLRXV ORVW WKDW can never be retrieved. Who knows ZKDW WKH QH[W GD\ PD\ EULQJ"Âľ 6KH ZRXOG DOVR HPSKDVL]H WKH JUHDWQHVV RI 7RUDK ZKHQ VKH VDLG ´:RUN KDUGHU DQG VDFULĂ&#x20AC;FH PRUH )RU VXFK D JUHDW and mighty Torah, this is too small a VDFULĂ&#x20AC;FH Âľ :KHQ D FKLOG JURZV XS KHDULQJ WKHVH WZR PD[LPV DV SDUW RI KLV daily lessons, it is no wonder that he achieves such distinction. Indeed, all RI XV DUH EHQHĂ&#x20AC;FLDULHV RI KHU OHJDF\ and the legacy that our own mothers have instilled within us. Thank you, Mommy.

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