Im Crying That We Have No Part in It

Reb Shmuel’s grandson, Reb Yoel Rosner, a son of his son-in-law Reb Moshe Yosef Rosner, related:

I went to my grandparents on Purim to wish them a freilechen Purim. To my surprise, I saw my grandmother crying.

“What happened, Savta?” I asked. “It’s Purim today.”

“Every year on Purim, Saba would give out so much tzedakah for matanos l’evyonim, and today, we can’t do that anymore. Is that not a good reason to cry?”

The tziyun of Reb Shmuel and his wife Geulah. “The beloved and the pleasant in their lifetimes, in death they were not separated.”