Mendelsohn's Pizza celebrates half a century of savory success
Rav Meir started his pizza store as a means to pay off his debts. The day he burned his final IOU, in 1979, he called his family together and declared his immediate retirement. He moved back to Eretz Yisrael and was invited by the yishuv in Ramat Polin to serve as rav. He was niftar a decade later, in 1990.
“When he was in the store my grandmother would say, ‘Meir, you’ll learn later, put away the Gemara, I need your help,’ ” Heshy says. “He was always learning. He opened a pizza shop to pay his debts, but he was always seen as a rav and posek, even by customers.”
(Originally featured in Mishpacha, Issue 783)
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