Too young to learn a mishnah, or even to contemplate a machsheves mussar, he was sitting with his Alef Binah
For a small bein hazmanim excursion, Avraham Elbaz, a celebrated photographer of gedolei Yisrael, took a small group to the kever of Rav Shach. On the way up to the kever, Elbaz told them about the inscribed message, the last will and testament of this great tzaddik.
They arrived at the kever, and a member of the group noticed a young boy — no older than five or six — sitting on a bench beside it. Too young to learn a mishnah, or even to contemplate a machsheves mussar, he was sitting with his Alef Binah.
In the sweetest of voices, in the ageless tune that one generation uses to pass along the letters of the alef-beis to the next, the little boy chanted the letters l’illui nishmas the Ponevezher Rosh Yeshivah, who dedicated his life to their transmission.
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 925)
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