Rabbi Krohn explained that it’s not enough to go up to Hashem’s mountain; you have to stand there
When I asked Rav Eliezer Krohn if his father would be up to speaking on Sunday afternoon, Shivah Asar B’Tammuz, the return call was not long in coming.
“My father can do it,” he said. “I’m sure you’ll get a big crowd.”
This would be Rabbi Paysach Krohn’s first public event in Passaic since his stroke at the Agudah convention last December. Since then, his name, Paysach Yosef ben Hinda, has constantly been in the tefillos of thousands, mine included. So I was also sure that he would draw a large crowd. However, I could never have predicted what would transpire.
As I waited on the sidewalk in front of the shul to greet him, I must have said “Shalom aleichem” to the entire neighborhood. Hundreds were streaming to the event, men, women, and children.
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