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Kfar Sava Residents Amazed by Firm Insistence on Kedushas Shabbos

by A. Cohen

The three partners who own the Rothbang supermarket in Kfar Sava sanctified Sheim Shomayim by observing the sanctity of Shabbos before the eyes of dozens of local residents and hundreds of customers.

On Shabbos Parshas Mishpotim a fire broke out at a residential building on the corner of Rothschild and Ben- Gurion. A fire truck arrived at the scene quickly and proceeded to evacuate all of the residents from the building. During the evacuation, the building's electrical current was disconnected to safeguard the residents.

After the fire was extinguished, the residents returned to their homes and turned on the electricity. But on the ground floor of the building is an immense supermarket called Rothbang, whose owners are shomrei Torah umitzvos from Kfar Sava, Bnei Brak and Beit Shemesh. After the firemen put out the fire, the electrical current to the supermarket remained disconnected and the contents of all of the refrigerators and freezers began to thaw.

The building residents notified one of the owners, who lives nearby, but he said nothing could be done because of the sanctity of Shabbos. Numerous residents were astounded by the storeowner's steadfastness in fully observing kedushas Shabbos, despite the large monetary losses that would be incurred.

Sunday morning the products that had rotted in the refrigerators were tossed into the garbage in view of hundreds of customers and only in the afternoon was the supermarket stocked with fresh goods.

Their actions were made widely known in Kfar Sava and by fervently keeping the sanctity of Shabbos the owners sanctified Sheim Shomayim.

 

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