That Night (Private Providence, Leaflet 41)
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Shushan shlit"a of Bnei Brak relates: On Shabbat Kodesh Parashat Achari Kedoshim, at about twelve o'clock, a yeshiva student named Rabbi Tzvi Shidrovitsky shlit"a, who lived several buildings next to me on Chida Street, knocked on my door.What does that mean?" I asked. After all, the synagogues are closed now, the minyanim are held in the courtyards. Who brings in Torah scrolls these days? Rabbi Tzvi explained to me: "I took the Torah scroll of our minyan from a yeshiva. This is a Torah scroll that is always used as a second Torah scroll. He is the one who reads the four parashiot, the reading of Shabbat Rosh Chodesh, and the like. If it weren't for the coronavirus, they wouldn't have opened it with one of the regular portions – you will seed a leper. In the small minyan now, it serves, of course, as a regular Torah scroll, and we read the weekly portions in it. Last week, Parashat Tazria Metzora, the husband asked a reader to read the words "Sha'ar Shachar," and the word "shachar" does not appear! If so, it is an invalid Torah scroll. They immediately rolled up the scroll, set it aside, and took a Torah scroll from a minyan in another yard.
On Saturday night, I took the Torah scroll to the magician. He scanned the entire computer and discovered three more mistakes. He also corrected them and demanded payment: 800 shekels. I thought I might find the donor of the Torah scroll or his heirs to ask them for the money, but then I looked at the embroidery on the coat of the Torah scroll and discovered the name 'Avraham Zusha Star.' I found out that he had died childless and had no heirs. Now, on Shabbat, the Torah was read for the first time after the correction."What do you say?" I was amazed, "My son is named Avraham Zusha after him." Rabbi Tzvi looked at me as if he didn't understand, what do you have to do with him? And I explained: "Rabbi Avraham Zusha Starr z"l went through the horrors of the Holocaust, he rolled in the camps, and when he survived, he discovered that he had lost his entire family in the war. He immigrated to Eretz Ud, sheltered from the fire, and here he married a second time with Mrs. Leah. He lived on Yechezkel Street, across from the synagogue of the Gaon Rabbi Yaakov Landa zt"l, and contributed a lot to him. He died on the 24th of Adar 5753, and his wife, Mrs. Leah, asked my sister-in-law, who lives near her, to name her son after her husband. She told her that she could not give the name because her husband, my brother Shichi, is also called Avraham. But she will try to ask a good Jew to give her name. My brother Rabbi Avraham Yeshai called me and told me about his late neighbor and the widow's request. "You already have two children, and you will have more children, G-d. It's a tremendous kindness, and she also wants to be grateful for it.
I went to one of the great rabbis of the generation zt"l and asked him if he would fearing Jew-accept the offer. The rabbi asked if Rabbi Avraham Zusha was a God, and I answered yes. The rabbi answered and said: "Why not? Kindness to the deceased, also to make the widow happy, and if she is kind to you, it is also a good thing for you. I informed the widow that I had taken it upon myself to give my son a different name nthan her husband. Not long afterwards, a daughter was born. The next in line was a so . My late father had passed away some time earlier, and I was torn between the desire to give my father a different name and the promise I had made. I went to one of the great sages of the generation, shlita, and he answered: 'First of all, keep the promise. erWith God's help, you will have another son, and you will name him after your fath ". And so it was. I called my son "Avraham Zusha," and for the son who was born after him, I called him "Moshe Yekutiel," after the name of my father, may his memory be blessed. And lo and behold, it's a wonder. Last week, on the evening of Shabbat Tazria Metzura, we made a match. My son Avraham Zusha got engaged! Do you understand what's going on here? The only two memories that remain after Rabbi Avraham Zusha Starr, may his memory be blessed, the Torah scroll that he donated and my son, who was named after him, were saved that night. The Torah scroll was corrected after thirty years!!, and my son found his pairing."
