Will he eat on Yom Kippur? - R' Avraham Heckscher

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I want to share with you a really painful episode which I heard from one of my rebbeim, from Matisyahu Deutch, shlita Zion is under the love of Hamantaschen my notice all. He told me that he got a call from a set of parents who were frantic. You have to speak to my son, they said. Their son had been in Yeshiva Tiferes in the area and he was one of the cream de la cream, one of the top in the sheer, above with a smother, above with kishron. The learning was gishmak, he understood the sheer everything everything was going fantastic. And then with no prior warning, suddenly his ruchnius, suddenly his spirituality had a yerida. He started slipping and slipping. And when this mother called him Matisyahu, she said, you have to speak [music] to him, it's almost Yom Kippur and my son has told me that he's going to eat on Yom Kippur, speak to him, stop him, do what you can, help us, they pleaded. So Matisyahu told me he took the boy on a walk and he took him and put his arm around his shoulder and he got into a heart to heart discussion and he said to him, tell me my son, what happened? What happened to create such a terrible terrible downfall and slip in your Yiddishkeit? Sometimes bochurim who are struggling in Yeshiva have it hard, but you, the learning is going gishmak and chaburas are going good, you understand the sheer. What

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