And Your Children Will Return to Their Border
In 1993, a prominent rabbi was killed in a fatal car accident in Eretz Yisrael. This rabbi had been proficient in the revealed and concealed aspects of Torah. He was a tremendous Kabbalist, who delivered shiurim in practical Kabbalah.
After he was killed, his family lacked a father figure to educate and guide them. Slowly but surely, they began to veer off the straight and narrow and went to foreign cultures. They left their yeshivot and sought fulfillment in the streets. Torah and mitzvot lay abandoned by the wayside.
Approximately four years later, I found myself in Bnei Brak. The man’s unfortunate widow came to me, bemoaning the fate of her once illustrious family. Not only had her husband died, but her children, who were once the glory of the greatest yeshivot, were dying a slow, spiritual death. Soon she would lose them, as well, rachmana litzlan.
I was very saddened to hear that her sons had left the path of Torah. I tried to lift her spirits and encourage her by saying, “B’ezrat Hashem, in the merit of my fathers, all your children will come back to you and build strong Torah-true homes.”
Not long passed when Hashem’s blessing enveloped her home. In a most incomprehensible manner, her children left their chosen paths of iniquity. They chose, instead, to return to their yeshivot. Within a short time, the oldest son married the daughter of a talmid chacham and established a fine Jewish home. His siblings followed suit.
There is no doubt that the power of their tzaddik of a father stood by his orphans. His neshamah certainly spoke in their defense on High and effected this wonderful turnabout.
