“I met a non-Jew who wants to give tithes to a Levite. He gave me a box filled with tithes"
Rabbi Gershon Avtzon is the indefatigable rosh yeshivah of Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati. A few weeks ago, he celebrated his birthday, and, in line with Chabad custom, he reached out to friends and family to wish them heartfelt brachos. He made one call to his friend Chaim, who lives on the East Coast.
“Oy, I could really use a brachah,” Chaim told him. “It’s been very tough financially. I honestly don’t know how I’ll pay the bills this month.”
Listening sympathetically, Rabbi Avtzon offered his profuse blessing that things turn around for the better and hung up.
This past Friday, on Purim Katan, Rabbi Avtzon received a call from Rabbi Yossi Greenberg, the Chabad shaliach in Miami, Ohio (some 40 minutes away from Cincinnati).
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