"The negative reports may or may not be true, but Hashem is here in Eretz Yisrael, inviting us to return along with the nearly 7 million brethren who have already done so"
Your warm profile of Rabbi Moshe Hauer reminds me of two phone calls I received from him. The first took place shortly after our move from Cleveland to Baltimore about five years ago. It came a few days before Yom Kippur.
Our son, Yehuda, was scheduled to be the baal tefillah. My wife, Sarah, had had some surgery and could not make the walk to hear her son davening.
The phone rang: “This is Moshe Hauer. I have arranged housing for you right near the shul” — as if he had nothing else to do.
The second call came a few years later. On a Friday afternoon the phone rings. “This is Moshe Hauer. (I quipped, ‘I guess you need help with your derashah, Rabbi…) I just wanted to say that I missed you.”
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