The story is told about the great Chazon Ish, Rav Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz, zt”l, when he was a young child of only seven years old. One day when his family sat down to eat lunch together, the good smell coming from the kitchen made everyone feel hungry. After all, it wasn’t every day that they were lucky enough to have meat for lunch.
The Chazon Ish’s mother happily filled everyone’s plate, Davening that the food should give her husband and children strength to learn Torah. She passed the steaming plates of food to her family, and then sat down herself to start eating, giving a loving glance at everyone enjoying their meal. She noticed though, that little Avraham Yeshaya’le wasn’t eating!
“Why haven’t you eaten anything yet?” she asked her son. “Do you not like how it tastes?”
“No, Imma, certainly the food tastes very good, but I didn’t get a fork.”
His mother quickly got up and brought back a fork for her child. When she reached him, she saw that she had also forgotten to serve him a plate of food! When she returned to the kitchen, she couldn’t help but smile. Her little Tzadik didn’t want to embarrass her by telling her that she forgot his lunch altogether! Instead, he waited until she realized it on her own. And even when she asked him, he said that he ‘only’ didn’t get a fork! (Chayei HaChazon Ish, p.13)
— Torah U’Tefilah as compiled by Rabbi Yehuda Winzelberg.
