Yesterday I had the high privilege of speaking between mincha & maariv as the rabbi went out of town for a few days. I was learning sefer Olas Tamid on the prayer, Adon Olam.
We were up to the words "Vtzur Chevli" & he translates the words using "Chevlei Leida" (birth pains). At which point I use the Lamaze translation, "manageable discomfort" which gets me on a tangent of how when Ima was pregnant with Suri I went to the Steipler Rav ztz"l to get a bracha that Ima should have an easy labor, which then gets me to the fact that his bracha was fulfilled as Suri was nearly born in the taxi because that was the night that Jerusalem defeated Tel Aviv for the basketball championship and the kvish to Y'lem was a like a parking lot packed with revelers honking their horns & cheering.
As I'm right in the middle of all this, my cell phone rings & the caller ID says it's Suri calling, so I answer it & it was Yossi.
I thought that was cool & so did everyone there.
Rabi channanya ben akashya omer ratza.........
So Neat! ...DId you answer your phone in the middle of the shiur?
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a soccer game. But the Rebbe's bracha extended to Yaakov's birth.
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