As we prepare to celebrate Shavuos, the giving of our nation’s greatest gift of all time, writers reflects on personal gifts that changed their lives
W hat’s the greatest gift you’ve ever received?
How about the most significant or meaningful?
As Shavuos nears and we prepare to celebrate the giving of our nation’s greatest gift of all time writers reflects on personal gifts that have changed their lives in a meaningful way.
Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Gruen
Zeidy was a fighter.
I know little of his childhood in Krakow. He usually began his life story with the black day when the Nazis goose-stepped into town and his life was overturned. But I do know that in a world filled with tantalizing “isms,” in a city that had lost some of its best and brightest to foreign ideologies, Zeidy remained a heise Gerrer chassid, connected to his rebbe, heart and soul.
When the murderers swept through Poland, Zeidy stayed one step ahead of them. He was fearless, hiding tens of people, risking his life for others, because you did what was right. He joined the Russian partisans, saw miracles, survived.
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