I left the office on a high, ready to conquer the world.
In the end, we got our residency. My wife gave birth to our two younger daughters in Ukraine, which gave us an official legitimate reason for permanent residency. But I will never forget the lesson I learned in that little government office: logic and reason cannot stand in the way of making the world a better place and bringing Moshiach.
Source: Extracted, copy edited and supplemented by Yerachmiel Tilles from a report on //dollardaily.org. [“Dollar Daily” is a creative tzadaka project to benefit Chabad shluchim families.]
Why this week? All the animals came to Noah’s Ark in pairs.
[1] Yechiel Slomo Levitansky lives at present in Sumy, Ukraine with his wife Rachel and their six children. After serving as a rabbi in Los Angeles (where he was born in 1974,) and South Africa (where she was born) he moved to Ukraine to the city of Sumy to be the chief rabbi. His shlichut is the restoration of Jewish life in Sumy and the Sumy region. [from the fjc.org.ua website]
Reprinted from the Parashat Noach 5785 email of KabbalahOnline.org, a project of Ascent of Safed in Israel.
