“Yakov, in his short life in This World, succeeded in becoming a walking kiddush Hashem”
E
very Thursday for the past three and a half months, I would get the email: Can you please bake challah for the zechus refuah sheleimah of Refoel Yakov Chaim ben Malya Lieba?
And we baked. Women, girls, grandmothers worldwide. The emails kept pouring in with information on Refoel Yakov Chaim’s condition, entreaties to daven, joyful progress, and heartbreaking updates. An absolute roller coaster of emotions, but we were all holding on tight.
On Monday morning, July 13, 2020, the last email pinged into our inboxes:
Baruch Dayan HaEmes.
And even though I never met Mr. Yakov Henigson, I cried with a broken heart.
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