In the city of Mir, there lived a girl by the name of Chiyenna, whose dream was to marry a ben Torah. However, she was finding the task rather challenging. At a young age, she’d been orphaned from her father, and her family had no breadwinner. They made do with a very meager income, which certainly complicated her prospects at marrying a ben Torah. The years went by, and no shidduch seemed to work out.
One night, while everyone else was asleep, she sat beside the table and wrote a heart-to-heart letter to Hashem, enumerating her pain and what she was requesting of Him. But once she finished writing it, what was she going to do with it? How would she send a letter to Hashem?
She decided that she would wait for a windy day, hike up to the closest mountain, and send it into the air in the hope that it would get to Hashem. When the right day came, she made her way to the mountain, took her letter, released her grip of it, and watched it float through the air until it was out of sight. She was content to believe that Hashem had received her letter, and she climbed back down to await its results.
Lo and behold, the letter ended up falling in the path of a yeshiva bachur, just the type of chosson the girl had been hoping for! He picked up the letter and saw it addressed to “Avi She’ba’Shamayim.” He was flabbergasted. “Avi She’ba’Shamayim?” he thought. Who is writing this, and what do they need? He certainly wasn’t Avi She’ba’Shamayim, but his curiosity got the better of him, and he opened it.
After reading it, he ran to his rosh yeshiva, Reb Elya Baruch Kamahi, and asked, “I’ve found a letter addressed to Avi She’ba’Shamayim, and it’s a request for a shidduch with a ben Torah. Is this a message that I should consider marrying this girl?”
The rosh yeshiva suggested that he first meet the girl to see with whom he’s dealing with. Upon meeting, this bachur, Yitzchok Yechiel, saw how they shared the same Torah values and that they were compatible. Reb Kamahi suggested that he marry her.
Reb Yitzchok Yechiel Davidowitz, eventually became the rav in the Karelitz. Not only that, but they were zocheh to astonishing offspring, including being the honorable grandparents of the Feinstein dynasty. Who hasn’t benefited from one of the thousands of earthshattering p’sakim that Reb Moshe Feinstein enlightened us to?
Reb Yitzchok Yechiel and Reb. Chiyenna (Horowitz) gave birth to Reb. Faye Gittel, the mother of Reb Moshe. Such a lady who was determined to take a learning boy, and turned to Hashem without despair, was zocheh to such well-deserved offspring.
