“My father didn’t live to save money. He lived to use money to help people, and he did that every single day.”
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t was during the shivah that one of the sons of the Yoka Rebbe, Rabbi Shlomo Tzvi Koenig ztz”l, took a call from a rosh kollel who lived in Boro Park.
“I made a chasunah four weeks ago and your father called me and told me to go into a particular store to buy clothing for my whole family and it was put on his account,” says the rosh kollel.
The incident came as no surprise to the family of the Yoka Rebbe.
“We all know this story because it happened all the time,” comments Rav Avrum Yishai Koenig, the Vorka Rebbe. “My father didn’t live to save money. He lived to use money to help people, and he did that every single day.”
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