I went with my son to the Rosh Yeshivah to get a brachah for Rosh Hashanah. The Rosh Yeshivah greeted us warmly and blessed us. Then he asked, “How did you get here?”
“In a taxi,” I said.
“Perhaps the driver also wants a brachah?” The Rosh Yeshivah asked.
I told him I would check, and I went out to call the driver. He was excited by the idea that the Rav wanted to bless him, and he came with me into the Rav’s home.
“Do you agree to accept something upon yourself?” the Rosh Yeshivah asked.
“Something small,” agreed the driver, who, painfully, does not wear a kippah.
“Commit to keeping Shabbos during the month of Tishrei,” the Rav proposed.
He committed to this, and he received a brachah for a shanah tovah.
When friends invited him to the festival that would be taking place in the South, which was to be held on Simchas Torah, he was almost tempted to join them, but then he decided to stay true to his promise. He kept Shabbos, and the Shabbos safeguarded him, and he was saved from the massacre that the terrorists perpetrated there, R”l.
