True tales from the corners of our world
A shiur I gave in Manchester many years ago had an impact that continues to reverberate — way beyond what I could have imagined.
Many years ago, I was asked to speak at an evening fundraiser for a school in Manchester, England, and then to give a shiur the next morning in a local shul for an organization. The shiur, called “Start Your Day The Torah Way,” would be fateful in ways I could never have predicted.
I prepared a simple half-hour shiur on the parshah, which that week was Chayei Sarah, and I titled it, “The Expiration Date of Inspiration.”
“We know that when Avraham Avinu’s servant Eliezer came to Charan to find a wife for Yitzchak Avinu, he proposed a bunch of tests to make sure that she would be the right girl,” I began. “When he encountered Rivkah, and he was satisfied with the outcome of his tests, he gave her lots of jewelry and asked her if her father’s house had room to accommodate him. By the time Rivkah had relayed the visitor’s request to her father and brother, there was no question in anyone’s mind that Eliezer was a very wealthy man and that this was the kind of shidduch that comes along once in a lifetime.
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