Daily Boost Shorts!!! Your parents haven't forgotten you - A moving story by Rabbi Alon Atiya Shlita

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This story was published back in the days of the Chazon Ish, and later the Steipler was asked about it, and he said it is one of the most awe-inspiring stories about the Chazon Ish; a story about the Chazon Ish's diligence and his devotion to his fellow man. But this story is a bit different from the usual: you can hear Hasidic tales about all kinds of soul rectifications, but to hear a story now that the Chazon Ish was involved in— that is quite a wonder. This story has been published many times, but we will repeat it so we can understand how things operate even in these generations, not only in ancient times. There was a Jewish man named Yaakov Feldman. After the hardships of the Holocaust, he was a young man there, he lost his entire family, moved to the Land, was privileged to arrive in the Land, and settled in Rishon LeZion. He worked there as a manager of a cooling/ AC unit in a garage. Even during the Holocaust, he said, in the labor camps, that was what he knew how to do; he gained his expertise there. When he came here, he was already a great expert. He would work there around the clock. He became completely estranged from the path of Torah and commandments ; he kept nothing, absolutely nothing. He reached a state, God forbid, where he desecrated Sabbaths and holidays; he worked all the time, and even on Yom Kippur he would work. Imagine, Yom Kippur night, 5713—let's go back a few years, if it's 5717...5713 was 1953 , Maybe four, fine, almost four, 74 years ago—Yom Kippur night 5713. He is in the midst of working in his garage there in Rishon LeZion, when his father appears, Rabbi Chaim Mordechai, who perished in Auschwitz. He sees his

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1. 0:00This story was published back in the days of the Chazon Ish, and later the Steipler…
2. 0:30been published many times, but we will repeat it so we can understand how things operate…
3. 1:32Kippur night, 5713—let's go back a few years, if it's 5717...5713 was 1953 , Maybe four,…
4. 2:33calm down." He ate, drank, and fell asleep. His father came to him in a dream…
5. 3:04, he went to sleep to take a midday nap . His father came to him…
6. 4:06Rabbi said to him, he asked: "What, Rabbi?""Don't you know that it is forbidden to work…
7. 5:06nothing.""I was a child when they taught me Torah, I remember nothing." The Rabbi told him…
8. 5:39says, "Know that there is great pleasure for fathers and mothers whose children walk in the…
9. 6:40Yes, what did you do?" He says: "I went up to Mother's grave.""I said to her:…
10. 7:44an apartment in that area, wait a second. He picked up the phone for him: Yes,…

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