Rabbi Menachem Shmuel David HaLevi Raichik
Lessons from the life of a true Chosid
My father’s Yahrtzeit is on the eighth of Shvat. The eighth of Shevat is the anniversary of the day that ended the era of the Zekainim in the times of Yehoshuah. The Zekainim were the educators and the leaders of the generation under the guidance of Yehoshuah. When I reflect upon my father’s life and how he represents what a true chosid is, I see the hashgacha pratis in his yahrtzeit falling out on this day. As a child, I witnessed his davening and would often find him in shul late even on a weekday. He had his corner in Rabbi Halbershtam’s shul. On Shabbos he would be seen leaving shul as preparations were being made for shalosh seudos. |
