When there’s “another way,” no matter how hard — Rav Mattisyahu Salomon showed us that’s the road to take
Many years ago, a prominent kiruv organization hosted a major milestone dinner. The Lakewood mashgiach, Rav Mattisyahu Salomon, was slated to be the keynote speaker, and I was given the great honor of introducing him.
A week before the dinner I received a call from an out-of-town rav. He needed the Mashgiach’s advice, and asked if I could speak with him at the dinner. I agreed, and he shared his question with me.
His son would be starting a new mesivta that month in a neighboring town, an hour’s ride away, he told me, and he and his wife were debating how he should get there. He could take a bus door to door, but about half the students riding the bus would be girls traveling to a high school in the same town.
Alternately, his wife could drive the boy to yeshivah every day, but that would mean that she would be spending four hours a day on the road and wouldn’t be home when their other children came home.
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