PERSPECTIVES → DISPATCH Issue 998 · February 7, 2024

Suddenly, Not

Mattisyahu Chaim ben Ettil was on my mind and in my tefillos six days a week for all these years.

Suddenly, Not
Photo: Shalom Korn_shalom Photography

How so?

I met him only once. That’s it.

I heard him speak in public only once, right after he came to the US. That’s it.

I never called him on the phone. I was not a student in Lakewood’s Beis Medrash Govoha.

I never attended his shmuessen. I have numerous mussar books on my shelf, and have read many, but somehow I have never read one of Rav Salomon’s.

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