Mixed in with her joy and gratitude was one question that kept gnawing at her
t was August 2007, Kayla and Mordechai Leebenthal (names changed) were spending bein hazmanim in Eretz Yisrael. The stated reason was to visit family and friends and to attend Mordechai’s nephew’s bar mitzvah. However, there was another reason Kayla and Mordechai were in Eretz Yisrael.
The Leebenthals had been married for six years and were not yet parents.
None of the known medical interventions had been successful, and they desperately wanted to receive brachos from tzaddikim.
They were scheduled to return to the States the night of Rosh Chodesh Elul. That afternoon, their married friends and relatives made them a surprise seudas preidah. Everyone came with their children, and it was a joyous send-off.
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