One night, as I was making my way through the narrow alleyways of Meah Shearim to the gadol’s modest home, I passed the famed bulletin boards where all the posters with the latest information about levayos or protests are prominently displayed. The entire wall was filled with posters announcing a special protest the next afternoon, initiated by a certain faction. (I don’t recall what the exact nature of the protest was.) What particularly caught my eye was that each poster ended with the assurance that whoever participated in the protest was “muvtach that he will be zocheh to be mekabel pnei Mashiach Tzidkeinu!”
I was intrigued. As soon as I sat down with the Rav, I told him about the promise and asked him what he thought.
Before the gaon was able to respond to my question, the Rebbetzin, who had just entered the small room and had heard my question, shared a story about her saintly father, the legendary Rav Aryeh Levin ztz”l.
Rav Aryeh was hospitalized, ill and weak, in the weeks before his passing, and his daughter, Rebbetzin Elyashiv, had gone with her sister to spend some time with their ailing father. One day as they were sitting with their father, their brother, Rav Aryeh’s youngest son, came in to visit as well.
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