If I Could Ask You One Question

If you could ask a single special ancestor of yours to address one puzzle, dilemma, or question that you face, who would you ask and which life experience would you tap?

Is Now the Time?

Rabbi Ron Yitzchok Eisenman

To my Zayde, Rav Avraham Shlomo Zalman Zoref of Lithuania/Jerusalem,

I am turning to you across miles and centuries. I know my reality as a rav in New Jersey of 2019 is eons away from yours as a talmid of the Vilna Gaon who traveled from Lithuania to Jerusalem at the beginning of the 19th century. But I feel that you, perhaps more than anyone else, can understand my dilemma.

Zayde, I am currently a rav in Passaic, New Jersey.

With siyata d’Shmaya, the shul has grown and we have multiple minyanim a day. Our city has become a true makom Torah with numerous yeshivos, kollelim, batei medrash, and shuls. All of us feel relatively safe here as there is little overt anti-Semitism. Indeed, all over America, there are many Torah communities that are growing and flourishing. In several months there is a plan for a grand Siyum HaShas in an arena in which will gather almost 100,000 frum Yidden all in one place.