GREAT READS → SHUL WITH A VIEW Issue 981 · October 11, 2023

The True Meaning of Chesed

Rav Shlomo Zalman Kaufman taught me what caring and chesed really mean

The True Meaning of Chesed

 

I was shocked when I heard of his passing, so sudden and unexpected.

I had only met him twice in person and spoken to him on the phone a few times. Yet I knew I had to be menachem avel.

His sons didn’t recognize me, and asked how I knew their father.

Rav Shlomo Zalman Kaufman ztz”l wasn’t the rav of a shul nor a rosh yeshivah, but a dayan who gave many shiurim in his home.

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