Chapter Thirteen

Let Justice Cleave the Mountain: Loyalty to Shabbos is Repaid Doubly

Even when Maran was in the midst of a very crucial, fateful battle, waging a holy war in which many heavyweight issues of Torah hung in the balance, he fulfilled the dictum of Chazal, "Let justice cleave the mountain." And when there was even a remote chance of violating even one paragraph in the Shulchan Oruch, he would call a halt to the entire campaign.

Mother's Hours
by Chaim Walder

Kovod av vo'eim is compared to kovod Hashem. To open our hearts to Hashem for teshuvoh it may be necessary to open our hearts to our parents. — Editor