{"id":98454,"date":"2022-11-20T01:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/?p=98454"},"modified":"2022-11-20T01:25:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T23:25:23","slug":"only-one-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/only-one-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Only One Request"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only One Request<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was my honor and privilege to participate in the siyum<\/em> of a bachur <\/em>in the yeshiva Torat Chaim <\/em>in Ashdod. During the celebration, the boy\u2019s mother approached me and asked for a blessing for her son. These were her words, \u201cI have one request from Hashem \u2013 that my son should grow in Torah and yirat Shamayim<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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  1. A speech at Yeshivat Torat David, Ashdod<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I was astounded at her words. She did not ask for anything personal, such as health or a livelihood. And even for her son, she did not request wealth, a prominent career, or any other material blessing. All that she wanted was that he should grow in Torah. I blessed them warmly and then added:<\/p>\n

    \u201cWhen a Jewish mother\u2019s sole aspiration is that her son will grow in Torah and yirat Shamayim, and she educates him this way, she is guaranteed that he will grow to become a true talmid chacham.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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    Only One Request It was my honor and privilege to participate in the siyum of a bachur in the yeshiva Torat Chaim in Ashdod. During the celebration, the boy\u2019s mother approached me and asked for a blessing for her son. These were her words, \u201cI have one request from Hashem \u2013 that my son should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":25592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1070],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdpinto.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}