After the passing of the Chofetz Chaim’s first wife, Faige, in 1891 he remarried. Every year, he built the sukkah himself. Even as he got older, the sage continued to build it himself, despite it being difficult, out of his love for the mitzvah.
One year before Sukkos, after he married a second wife, Basya, she was about to leave to go grocery shopping and unthinkingly told him the sukkah might be better off in a different location – after he had already built it.
Without saying a word, the Chofetz Chaim disassembled it and reassembled it in a different spot. After Basya returned, she commented again, saying that the sukkah looked better in its original spot. Again, silently, the Chofetz Chaim took everything apart and rebuilt it. The amount of patience he displayed to protect Shalom Bais was superhuman.
Reprinted from the Parshas Vayeira 5784 email of Torah Sweets.
