Was Geveret Mizrachi actually questioning the amount I gave?
Mrs. Mizrachi,* or “Geveret Mizrachi” as she prefers to be called, collects for various aniyim, needy people, in Eretz Yisrael. Geveret Mizrachi has been coming to the shul for as long as I can remember.
From before vasikin at 4:58 until the final stragglers file out of the 10:30 Shacharis, Geveret Mizrachi sits like a soldier by the front door.
She is quick with a smile and even quicker with advice: “Don’t put so much sugar in your coffee! You can’t even close your jacket!”
As the words come from her heart, the plump parishioner smiles as he spoons his sugar into his coffee.
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