R’ Yitzchok Weiss was of the great recent Gedolei HaPoskim who served as a Dayan, and authored the famed work Minchas Yitzchok. He passed away in 1989 at the age of 87. When R’ Weiss was poised to get engaged, his mother became aware that the girl had certain physical blemishes and told her son the shidduch was not for him.
The young R’ Weiss said to his mother, “If I end it now, it will embarrass her. I don’t want to do that to another person. Let’s move forward.” R’ Weiss married her and they had one child together named R’ Berish, who eventually became the Rosh HaKahal of the Satmar community in Manchester, England.
He [Rabbi Yitzchok Weiss] passed away in 2020 at the age of ninety. From this one child, R’ Yitzchok Weiss had hundreds of grandchildren and great-grandchildren, many of whom are outstanding talmidei chachomim. R’ Yitzchok lost his young wife in the Holocaust and, although he remarried, he never had another child. He discovered he was not able to have children, but in the merit that he married his first wife and refused to do something that would embarrass her, Hashem changed the course of his destiny and blessed him with a child, and generations of children after him. (Living Emunah on Shidduchim)
Reprinted from the Parshas Emor 5784 email of The Weekly Vort.
