Harav Yosef Vizhnitzer, the Rosh Yeshivah of Vizhnitz in Brachfeld, related:
My father, Harav Mordechai Zalman Vizhnitzer, ztz”l, needed a loan before the wedding of one of his children. He called Reb Shmuel and asked if he could borrow $5,000. This was a huge sum in those days, worth around $20,000 today. In most cases, when a gvir agrees to give a loan, he tells the borrower when he can come to get it, and he specifies the terms of the loan.
But Reb Shmuel Daskal had a different way of doing things. Not only did he himself come to give my father the money, he was so excited to do a mitzvah of honoring my father that he said, “I’m coming over right away!”
My father felt uncomfortable. “It’s not urgent,” he replied. But Reb Shmuel couldn’t wait. Within a few minutes, he — and the loan amount — was at our house.
