Imagine my shock when I found out that this Yid, this pillar of fire, had come to one of my concerts— then another
Take a look at a nation’s heroes and you get a glimpse of its values. Heroes overcome, heroes transcend, heroes tap strength within and resources without to change their worlds and the worlds of those who know them. As a people of the spirit, our heroes are often heroes of the spirit. Their achievements can’t be described in terms of might or brawn – but their strength of character inspires everyone they touch.
What does a hero look like to you?
Avrohom Fried
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e kids of post-Holocaust Crown Heights knew many heroes, but Reb Mottel was unique. In a generation of mesirus nefesh Yidden — Jews who found a way to ignite a fire of emunah in freezing Communist Russia — he was special.
Reb Mottel the Shochet, he was called, though he was so much more. Even when most Jews left Russia, Reb Mottel Lipschitz stayed behind, because the Lubavitcher Rebbe — whom he’d never met, but with whom he was connected heart and soul — felt that Russia needed him. A shochet, a mohel — and a true chassid.
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