Rabbi Gedalya Dovid Hartstein of Bnei Brak related:
When I was a bachur learning in Slabodka Yeshivah in Bnei Brak, I had an organization to help needy bachurim. Before each Yom Tov, we would go to a clothing wholesaler in Tel Aviv to get discounted clothing for the bachurim. Once, when we were there, in the midst of negotiating the price, Reb Shmuel Daskal suddenly appeared. The wholesaler left us and immediately walked into a corner with Reb Shmuel, conversing with him quietly.
“We’re getting pushed to the side just because a rich man walked in?” we wondered to ourselves.
But just a few minutes later, we found out the real reason.
As soon as he finished talking to Reb Shmuel, the vendor came back and apologetically said, “Don’t think that I interrupted our conversation simply because he’s wealthy. It’s because Reb Shmuel sends many bachurim here to buy as much clothing as they want. I don’t charge them, and every so often, I tell him the total sum, and he pays me in cash.”
