Showing posts with label kiddush Hashem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kiddush Hashem. Show all posts
Dec 9, 2025
when Zeus caused a kiddush hashem...
Zeus, an African American in New York, created a tremendous kiddush hashem this week.
Zeus, walking in the rain through the streets of NY, found a shtreimel, in the case, in a pile of garbage and leaves.
Initially Zeus was excited with the treasure he had found. he said he always wanted one of those large fur hats he sees around Brooklyn. Funnily enough he calls it a shnitzel.
His viewers surprise him by telling him these shtreimels cost thousands of dollars. Stunned hearing the value, Zeus decided he would try to find the owner and return it. He found a phone number in the shtreimel case and called to say he found the shmeidel. The owner confirmed it is his shtreimel, not shmeidel, and explained he had been in an Uber a few weeks prior and he stepped out of the car to make a call and then the car drove off. He was unable to find his shtreimel and the Uber driver denied having seen it, btu clerly it had been discovered at some point and discarded.
Zeus said he wants to return it and cleaned it up and then told the owner where to pick it up from. He was verye xcited and emotional to return it. Funnily he says meeting the owner, he was a very sweet fellow, like a sweet elf, whatever that means.
The chassidishe fellow showed up to collect his shtreimel and gave Zeus a bottle of tequila as a gift fo gratitude for his good deed..
Zeus, not the Greek god, caused a kiddush hashem!
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Dec 7, 2025
found and returned money
A woman from Hod Hasharon owned an apartment in Bnei Braq that her sick brother lived in. Upon his recent death she sold the apartment and the buyer was an avreich from Bnei Braq.
While renovating the apartment, a bag of money was found sealed into one of the walls. The money was counted to the grand old sum of 150,000nis.
There was no mention of the money in the dead brother's will, and the question is now who is the rightful owner of the money. Does the sister inherit it from the brother? Was it hers as owner of the apartment? Is it the avreich's who bought the apartment, which is sold "as is"? maybe the owner of the money had given up on ever finding it, not knowing it was sealed into a wall? Maybe it has to be returned to her because she could not have given up hope of the money not even knowing it was there?
The avreich went to the dayan Rav Yehuda Silman to ask what to do with the money.
Rav Silman paskened that he has to return the money to the woman, the previous owner of the house as she did not know about the money when she sold the apartment.
The avreich wated to turn the returning of the money into a kiddush hashem event so he asked the woman to come down to the rabbi's house and held an event there to return the money, inviting several friends. The woman was very emotional hearing the story and also realizing she had inherited money from her brother. Rabbi Silman conducted a "lachayim" with the participants and blessed the avreich with an overflow of blessings in his new house and that his children should follow the path of the Torah.
source: Behadrei
What would you do? I hope I would do the right thing, ask and return it accordingly if that would be the answer given. I wonder if I might not even ask and come up with a logical sevara of why it is is mine or hefker and does not need to be returned.
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Apr 10, 2023
Oliver's Kiddush Hashem
Oliver Ferber! Wow. Sticking to your ideals and making a kiddush hashem when it doesn't work out and then again when it does. And getting written up about it in ESPN and spreading all that around the world. Amazing
Briefly, as you can read the full story in ESPN, Oliver goes to a Jewish school in Maryland and was a competitive runner. He became more religious during the pandemic and decided to no longer run on Shabbat, but the State championships were held on Shabbat. He held his ground and didnt run, upsetting all those around him. The next year he described his experience to the director of the state championship race and the director was touched by Oliver's request and description of his experience that he put forth some additional effort and moved the race to a Sunday for the next year.
Oliver Ferber for the win!
For Ferber there was a happy ending, after all the tribulations and deliberations he had to go through. That doesn't always happen and Ferber didnt know it would for him either, and was fully resigned to not giving up his Shabbat to accomplish what he had always dreamed about and worked for....
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Dec 18, 2022
the greatest kiddush hashem happening tonight!
and once we are talking about sports and Chanukah, I will point to this week's Chabad Shabbos paper called Living Jewish that has the story of a Chanukah menora lighting set to take place at tonight's football game, American Football this time, between the Tennessee Titans and the Los Angeles Chargers
It may very well be one of the largest venues for pirsumei nissa, but I think people use the term "kiddush hashem" a bit too flippantly. I am not sure it is the greatest kiddush hashem as he says it is, and I just have no idea what hakhel has to do with anything that supposedly makes it an even greater kiddush hashem
Due to the timing of the game I definitely wont be watching it live, but I will look for video of the event tomorrow, after the fact.
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Jul 18, 2022
she left Biden hanging
Last week when President Biden was in town for his visit, President Herzog hosted an event in his honor. At the event, Ran Danker and Yuval Dayan sang a rendition of Naomi Shemer's song Lu Yehi, which is also some sort of mashup with the Beatles song Let It Be.
It was a beautiful rendition and it looks like it was a lovely celebration overall. What happened at the end of the song has become a talking point across Israel over the past few days, though by now most have already moved on to other things.
Here is the clip (Three Weeks music warning, for those who need it):
As you can see at the end of the clip, a very pleased Joe Biden gets up to than the singers and extends his hand for a shake. Danker steps up and shakes while Dayan bows in thanks but does not shake Biden's hand. Some words are exchanged, words that we cannot hear, and everyone moves on with their lives.
This created quite a stir. People were shocked and even angry at the gall of Yuval Dayan leaving the President high and dry, leaving him hanging.
It is well known across Israel that Yuval Dayan has been in a process of becoming more religious and taking on more religious behaviors and rules ever since 2016. A while back Dayan said she will no longer shake hands with men, or hug, as she is now shomeret negiya.
So, despite the fact that Dayan just sang in front of a bunch of people, both men and women, both Jews and non-Jews, she is shomeret negiya and not necessarily careful about singing in front of men, so she sang but did not shake. Plenty of people who become religious do it slowly, taking on more things over time as they get comfortable. She is comfortable now with singing and not shaking hands. That is where she is at, and she acted consistently with her beliefs and commitments at this point.
People got very upset at her. First, she is allowed to shake, it is not sexual (though with Biden one never knows), and leaving him hanging is very embarrassing. Second, she is a hypocrite claiming religion when she just sang - if she is so religious and so committed she should have passed on the event and let someone else sing, but if she can sing she can shake.
As mentioned, that is not how it works. Besides the technical details that the problem is not hers but the men listening to her, and she might have a hetter for parnassa, if she wanted one - besides for all that - she has not taken that on yet. at this point in her life she is not yet comfortable giving up singing publicly, even though she has given up shaking and hugging men. That is not hypocritical, it is just where she is at right now.
Even without the singing, people were still critical for leaving Biden hanging. Malbin panav, and all that. Yuval Dayan posted an explanation online that she had told the Americans several times in advance that she would not shake hands or hug or touch in any way with any men, and she confirmed multiple times that this would be ok. Ran Danker posted confirming this from his side of the events. Biden forgot, or got swept up in the moment. While I personally would have shaked hands, Dayan did everything possible to avoid the situation and cannot be blamed for refusing and leaving Biden hanging, even if she could have shaken hands halachically had she wanted to. Also, if you watch the video, the entire moment was graceful, with Danker stepping forward and Dayan bowing slightly, and I dont think anyone was embarrassed by the gaffe. I did see some funny comments such as even if Biden was embarrassed, he forgot about it moments later, and another that Biden is so used to shaking hands with nobody but the air that he probably didnt even notice.
Interestingly, the initial instructions of the entire trip, from the Americans, was that Biden would not shake hands with anyone. That is why in the initial ceremony we saw him fist bumping everyone. Biden is old enough that they were concerned about COVID-19 issues and wanted to minimize contact. Biden went off script several times, at Yad Vashem with the survivors, and then some more at other events, but the Americans didnt want him shaking hands either.
the Dayan incident made me think back to Rivka Ravitz - Chief of Staff for President Reuven Rivlin, a Haredi mother of 12 (IIRC) who also refused to shake hands when meeting dignitaries including Prince William and even Joe Biden himself. She did not sing in front of them either, but still, this is not new, though maybe people are more forgiving of Ravitz being that she lives a Haredi lifestyle whereas Dayan was just singing in front of men but then would not shake.
And lastly, of my thoughts at least, nowadays if there is anything that came out of the #metoo movement it is that every person, especially women, decide for themselves when to touch and when to allow to be touched by, any other person. Nobody can decide for anybody else that they must touch someone or be touched by someone.
Yuval Dayan did nothing wrong and everything right. Good for her.
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May 22, 2022
our very own Big Gedalya Goomber
BREAKING NEWS: @Amareisreal quits working as an assistant coach for the Brooklyn Nets “because it’s difficult to be a coach and keep Shabbos”.
— Living Lchaim (@LivingLchaim) May 18, 2022
He also addresses the medias desire to create fake controversy between him & @KyrieIrving for clickbait purposes.
A true INSPIRATION. pic.twitter.com/fA8NxEm9Ow
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May 18, 2022
not losing because of Shabbos
Srugim is reporting on a story first publicized by Sivan Rahav Meir.
A young man on Kibbutz Tirat Tzvi, a religious kibbutz in northern Israel, named Nateh Eiger in 11th grade qualified for an international competition in chemistry. He traveled to Europe to participate in the event. 5 other young chemists went from Israel to participate along with Nateh. Eiger advanced through the first two rounds with excellence but had to bow out when he discovered the third round would take place on Shabbos.
While it seems organizers had promised Eiger that if relevant he would be able to do his presentation no either Friday or Saturday night, when push came to shove they did not allow him to and he decided to bow out of the competition rather than to be mechalel shabbos.
He left the event early and went home for Shabbos where his community prepared a grand welcome to celebrate his success and his decision that Shabbos has priority, despite having prepared 3 years for this.
That is an amazing story. This is a kiddush hashem. And Nateh Eiger is a direct descendant of the great and famous Rabbi Akiva Eiger. I am sure he is shepping nachas right now up there..
Kikar adds another twist. MK Uri Maklev (UTJ) has called upon the Ministry of Education to award Eiger with some sort of respectable compensation for this. Maklev says the system should stand behind Eiger, and as a Jewish state, keeping Shabbos is a central value held by the State. Eiger should not lose because of Shabbos. Minister of Education Yifat Shasha Biton said she would consider it, and would look into making official arrangements for future international competitions so things like this should not happen again.
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Apr 10, 2022
Israeli astronaut to be the Chabad shliach to International Space Station
Eytan Stibbe is now an Israeli astronaut, and one of three astronauts having paid for a flight to the International Space Station on a private mission. 
Rabbi Konikov of Chabad of the Space and Treasure Coasts in Florida prepared a Pesach food package for Stibbbe to take with him for the holiday. The food package includes hand-made shmura matza and some grape juice boxes. Stibbe will have a wine cup but will have to drink his four cups using a straw.
I dont know how long Stibbe is going to be in space but he will be there long enough that he will have to celebrate Pesach this week in space.
How does one celebrate Pesach ins pace?
Clearly one contacts Chabad. They might not have an actual Chabad House on the ISS but if anyone can arrange this it is them, and maybe Eytan Stibbe will officially be the Chabad shliach to the ISS.
I have not heard anything about maror in space.
A conspiracy theorist might think Stibbe is going up to make adjustments to the Jewish space laser with all this other Jewish stuff going on up there.
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Mar 21, 2022
Tweet of the Day
קידוש השם! במהלך משחק של קבוצת הכדורסל 'מכבי תל אביב' מול קבוצת הכדורסל 'הפועל גליל עליון' שהתקיים היום - שחקני 'מכבי תל אביב' ענדו סרטים שחורים לזכרו של מרן שר התורה הגאון רבי חיים קנייבסקי זצ"ל>> https://t.co/iN7D7DIOQB
— איציק אוחנה (@ok125125) March 20, 2022
צילום: באדיבות מכבי ת"א האפליקציה הרשמית pic.twitter.com/0umUnlOUdU
and let's add in this second tweet as well, also from Itzik Ohana, reporter for Kikar
גם במהלך משחק הכדורגל של 'בית"ר ירושלים', הכינו אוהדי הקבוצה שלט ענקי בו הם כתבו: "כולנו כואבים על לכתו של גדול הדור רבנו חיים קנייבסקי זצוק"ל ת.נ.צ.ב.ה.".
— איציק אוחנה (@ok125125) March 20, 2022
צילום: ליאת אבשלומי pic.twitter.com/2vJCtvjHzR
Ohana reports on Twitter of a kiddush hashem in that the players of the Macabbi Tel Aviv basketball team wore a black strap on their uniforms last night in their game against Hapoel Galil Elyon in memory of Rav Chaim Kanievsky. In the 2nd tweet he shows the fans of Beitar Jerusalem soccer club hung a sign in their game saying we all feel the pain of the passing of the gadol hador Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
These are all wonderful gestures, but not everything nice is a kiddush hashem. Rav Kanievsky was the furthest thing away from sports and I am not even sure he would appreciate such a gesture. Again, doing nice things is wonderful, but kiddush hashem?
What do you think?
This also reminds me of the funny story (I do not know if it is true but I have heard it several times) in which someone asked Rav Chaim Kanievsky if he could play basketball on Shabbos. Rav Chaim asked him what is basketball? When the fellow explained it is a game where you try to throw the ball into a hoop, Rav Chaim suggested incredulously that he should just put the ball in the hoop before Shabbos...
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Feb 28, 2022
Picture of the Day
The Breslav community in Uman is sheltering local residents in the mikva under the "kloyz"
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Nov 22, 2021
assimilated Jews doing mitzvos
For the first time ever, the Second Family's residence (ie the residence of the Vice President) has a mezuza on the doorpost. To remind you, Vice President Kamala Harris is married to a Jew - Doug Emhoff.
I must say I am sad to see so many people feel this way. In my opinion we should applaud any connection to Judaism and God a Jew has, especially an assimilated one. And halevai we should all do everything so lesheim shamayim, with such pure intent, that they demand of this assimilated Jew.
Emhoff is obviously an assimilated Jew - he is intermarried and from what I understand his first wife was also not Jewish - but he identifies openly as a Jew and is proud of that identity in his way. He is obviously not Jewish in the orthodox way, and I dont find it fruitful to judge Reform Jews by Orthodox standards or unaffiliated Jews by orthodox standards. Meaning, when a Reform Jew is pictured laying tefillin, for example, Orthodox Jews will often scoff that he or she does not even know how to put on tefillin as the placement is wrong. As if Reform Jews have to follow Orthodox law rather than Reform law or custom or do what they want when there is no Reform law. My point is Emhoff identifies as a Jew, even though he does not practice according to Orthodox standards.
Many non-Orthodox Jews, whether Reform or Conservative or other, affix a mezuza to the door of their home - some might only do the front door and not every internal door, but a mezuza they affix. For many it is part of the Jewish identity, even if they don't keep much else.
So Doug Emhoff and his wife VP Kamala Harris had a ceremony to affix the mezuza on the entrance of the Second Family's Residence. An historic moment in some sense. Perhaps even somewhat of a kiddush hashem as he proudly declares his affiliation to Judaism from nearly the highest podium in the world, despite the increasing polarization and increasing hatred and open antisemitism.
In today's world of polarization and extreme opinions, and the need to feel angry online about anything and everything, I was still somewhat surprised to see religious Jews angry about this. People were scoffing about it likely not being a kosher mezuza.
People were angry that they are two-faced ultra-liberals but putting on a mezzua and doing something Jewish (as if Jews cant be liberals). People were upset that this is just a political ploy on the back of Judaism.
People were upset that someone who clearly cares so little about Judaism was putting on this show as if he feels so Jewish.
People were upset that they borrowed the mezuza from the Reform temple rather than buying their own mezuza - they can't afford a mezuza? they have to borrow one? (I admit I did think that was weird, but I dont really care). People even got upset that the Rabbi called it a Temple (they borrowed the mezuza from the Temple).
People were upset that they made this into a ceremony with a Rabbi and other notables attending - who turns the fixing of a mezuza on a door into a big ceremony? (Well, besides for every store and business and public building in Israel with the local newspapers publishing pictures of all these mezuza ceremonies of new businesses that opened recently)
Basically, people like to get upset at anything and everything.
That is beside for the fact that it is very common for even Reform Jews and other types of denominations far from orthodoxy to have a mezuza on the house. They dont need my permission or your permission, or our approval, to follow their own customs and put the mezuza on the house. Emhoff probably has a mezuza on their private house as well (though I have no personal knowledge if they do or do not) and I see noting unusual or "two-faced" about this. He is Jewish and he is liberal (as are probably about 75-80% of American Jews).
I think Doug Emhoff did a good thing, even if it isnt done the Orthodox way and even if it wasn't with perfect intentions (though we have no way of knowing this)
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Nov 21, 2021
Yeshiva Boys Kiddush Hashem
What a great story from a couple of yeshiva high school kids in Chicago (well, Skokie, actually)Wonderful and amazing kiddush hashem!
Excerpt from CBS:
What would you do if a lot of money – actual American legal tender – fell right at your feet?
A couple of high schoolers in Skokie recently stumbled upon some cold, hard cash – fresh off an armored truck. CBS 2’s Steven Graves set out to meet those honest students, who turned in the money.
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For a day in Skokie – it was like money grew on trees and came down like fall leaves.
“It was so windy – literally, money was floating in the air!” said Zev Goldstein.
Goldstein and his friends were walking from breakfast Thursday morning outside Fasman Yeshiva High School, at 7135 Carpenter Rd. in Skokie, when more green than the grass started appearing.
“There’s tons of money – hundreds of 20s just lying on the ground in this area that floated over the bushes.”
“I was like, whose is this? Where is this coming from?” added Coby Kamish.
Kamish figured something was off. He tried to give the cash to a man in the distance who was rushing to pick it up.
“And he was like, ‘Just keep it!’ I was like, ‘That’s weird, why would he just say keep it?’”READ MORE:Person Shot On Bishop Ford Freeway
It turned out that man was guy was pocketing the money.
“And then we look across the street and we see the armored truck,” Kamish said.
Across Touhy Avenue in the Village Crossing shopping center, there is a Bank of America ATM – where the bank says a third-party vendor somehow let money get out of the armored truck.
“Because of how windy it was, it was futile,” Goldstein said. “We just gave up.”
He said the students did recover an estimated $790, which is now in the hands of police.
“I thought the right thing was to give it back to the p[people that actually, it’s their money,” Kamish said.
But there was a fleeting feeling that these young men won’t soon forget.
“This is the best day of my life, initially,” Goldstein said. “Yeah, I wish it could happen a second time.”
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Nov 17, 2021
Kiddush Hashem on the NYC subway, Chabad Rabbi was filmed giving away his shoes for a barefooted man (video)
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May 4, 2021
donating Chai
The Necht Foudnation, led by Marius Necht (co-founder of Checkpoint, among other things) and his wife Inbra Necht (lawyer) has decided to donate 18,000nis per family to each of the 45 families of victims of the Meron tragedy.
After hearing that many of the families are suffering financially, exacerbated by the tragedy, they decided to advance this direct line of assistance. They said they will transfer the money to each family's bank account directly.
Over the past year, they have been behind many initiatives funding health and cultural activities, including putting 3.5 million shekels in funding to assist 700 "behind the scenes" workers in the music industry.
Necht Foundation Spokesperson Nachman Rosenberg is quoted as saying that the Nechts decided on this initiative - as soon as they heard about the tragedy they felt an ethical and Zionistic obligation to find a way to help, and to strengthen the sense of co-responsibility for each other.
Amazing initiative
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Apr 18, 2021
money but no ring in the couch
Cool story.
The shliach Chabad in one of the neighborhoods of Beer Sheva lost an earing. The daughter was playing with the earing and stuffed it into the couch.
When the parents, Rabbi Mendy and Gitty Yitzchaki, were looking for the earing among the cushions they instead found a bunch of enveloped stuffed with money.
They were gifted the couch by the previous resident, the owner of the apartment when she left for the old age home. She was an older Russian woman who only spoke Russian and Yiddish.
So they found these envelopes stuffed into the couch - enveloped filled with dollars and euro to the tune of 100,000nis.
They tried to talk to the woman in the old age home to tell her about the money they found and return it to here, but she had no idea what they wanted from her. She didn't remember anything about the money. So they contacted her son, a doctor, instead. After telling him what happened,, he came to pick up the money, leaving a $300 donation to the Chabad house, and agreeing to put on tefillin.
They never even found the missing earring.
halachically I wonder if they even needed to return it. While found cash does not normally need to be returned, this is cash in envelopes stuffed into a couch, so it would be as the way it was hidden is considered a siman. However, the person they think who it belongs to has no memory of it and did not claim it. They gave it to the son who had no prior knowledge of it. Maybe the woman got the couch from someone before her and the money was not hers either!
Whether they needed to or not, they made a nice kiddush hashem by giving up what they could have kept without telling anyone. As they said, we were gifted a couch, not envelopes of money, so it isn't ours.
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Jan 3, 2021
is donating gambling winning to charity like kosher money laundering?
You don't see gambling news too often on Life in Israel. or on Jewish sites in general.
Yet the recent World Series of Poker is a Jewish news item now.
According to Poker News, Gershon Distenfeld made a dramatic announcement heading into the final round of the World Series of Poker. Distenfeld announced he would donate all his winnings to charity.
The Gemara in Taanis discusses the idea of being able to "test" God regarding charity - one can give charity in order to become wealthy. There are numerous debates regarding the exact meaning of that idea, but in some fashion it exists.
While I don't know that Distenfeld was testing God to help make him the winner of the WSOP, he definitely putting out a good gesture by donating his winnings.
According to Poker News:
The 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table is set to play out on Monday, December 28, and one of nine players descending upon the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino to battle it out is New Jersey’s Gershon “jets613” Distenfeld, who will begin play sixth in chips with 3,475,000.
Distenfeld, 44, was born in Queens, New York but now resides in Bergenfield, New Jersey with his wife of nearly 21 years, Aviva. Together they have three daughters Shoshana (19), Talia (15), Esti (13), and one son, Aryeh (4). He graduated from Yeshiva University with a BS in Finance in 1997.
Interestingly, Distenfeld’s birthday is December 30, meaning if he wins the final table and goes on to face Damian Salas in heads-up play for the bracelet and additional $1 million, he’d battling on his 45th birthday.
“I was born on the exact same day as Tiger Woods, December 30, 1975,” he said. “He apparently took all the golf talent destined for that day. Hopefully, I took all the poker talent!”
I checked the World Series of Poker website for updated information only to discover that Distenfeld ended the tournament in 8th place, winning some $125,885 for charity.
Some call donating gambling winnings as a form of Jewish "money laundering", so to speak - kashering ill gotten winnings by giving charity. I don't know if it is or isn't, but he made a very nice gesture and garnered some nice publicity with his announcement, and he isn't even keeping any for himself. I don't know if it qualifies quite as a kiddush hashem, but it is a nice gesture.
Good job Gershon. If you compete next year, I hope you win more.
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Sep 30, 2020
found a boxload of cash... did he keep it or return it?
Behadrei has the story of a Satmar chossid, Avraham Rottman, who owns a couple of makolets in Bet Shemesh and Mea Shearim, who found money in his warehouse among the cartons of yahrtzeit candles.
His employee, also a Satmar chossid, was pulling out the boxes of yahrtzeit candles and when he opened one of the boxes he found more than half a million shekels in cash! 500,000NIS instead of yahrtzeit candles!
Mr Rottman asked his rabbi what to do with the money. The rabbi paskened that it is likely the owner had already given up hope on ever getting his money back, so Rottman could keep the money he found. Despite that he decided to try to find the owner and return the money. Somehow he found the owner and returned the money. The owner, a Dati leumi fellow, cried from emotion and praised the Satmar chassidim.
It does not tell us who the owner was - someone from the manufacturing plant or in charge of the deliveries, or some other person? Nor does it tell us how he found the owner. Both would be interesting parts of the story. Additionally, I wonder how this story will go down legally - we all know the government is phasing out cash. Reading a story like this in the news and seeing a stockpile of that much cash is sure to raise some eyebrows and get an investigation started.
Regardless of that, kol hakavod to Mr Rottman and his employee, either could have taken the money and not reported it further and not looked for the original owner. Starting off the year with a kiddush hashem like that will surely stand in their merit.
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Sep 11, 2020
local kids lose control
It seems that Steph Curry, basketball star, recently moved to Toronto, to a home near an Orthodox Jewish community.
The local Jewish kids got so excited when they discovered their new neighbor that they couldn't control themselves. The kids basically harassed the Curry family trying to get pictures and autographs, even knocking on his door and ringing the bell. It got so bad that, YWN reports, the local schools decided to send out letters to the kids and their families that this behavior is not appropriate and we should give the Curry's their privacy. Leave the Currys alone! It had gotten so bad that Steph had complained to his agent about the harassment form the locals. The school letters even called it a chilul hashem.
All's well that ends well, as they say.
According to Kikar, after the schools sent the letter and the parents reamed out the kids, the kids knocked on Steph Curry's door just one ore time. This last time was not for an autograph but to offer an apology and to beg him for his forgiveness.
That is pretty cool to live so close to a professional athlete, let alone one who is a real star. The kids' excitement is understandable, but still the behavior is unacceptable It is nice they decided to apologize and hopefully now they are leaving Curry and his family alone. The Curry's deserve to be able to live peacefully and quietly int heir own home just as anyone else does, without being harassed by the neighbors.
Personally I think the term chilul hashem is a bit overused, and not every poor behavior is a chilul hashem. It is understandable that they got excited about being able to see Steph Curry so close and so often. And the Currys are probably used to it. Hopefully they balanced out their "chilul hashem" with a "kiddush hashem" in their apology.
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May 25, 2020
40000nis is nice, but the Kiddush Hashem is priceless
Yosef Chaim Machlouf, a Haredi resident of Givat Zeev, found a bag of money on the road in his neighborhood. In addition to some checks, it contained 40,000nis in cash.
I don't know how but Machlouf figured out that it belonged to an Arab from Gilo and returned it to him.
While one is not obligated, according to halacha, to return a lost item to a non-Jew, if one can make a kiddush hashem by doing so, he should, or at least should be encouraged to do so.
Machlouf decided to make a kiddush hashem and return the money to its owner. I am posting here to help publicize the kiddush hashem he chose to make.
When asked about it on the radio, Machlouf explained that he knew he was not obligated to return it, and it might even be not allowed, but to make a kiddush hashem it is allowed, and that is why he decided to return it. Machlouf added that because of Corona he decided to go the extra mile and beyond the letter of the law, and requested of Hashem that He do so as well, with us.
Needless to say, the owner of the money was very grateful that it was returned to him and called Machlouf a holy person. Machlouf definitely made his kiddush hashem.
sources: Haredim10 and Kol Hai News
I don't know how but Machlouf figured out that it belonged to an Arab from Gilo and returned it to him.
While one is not obligated, according to halacha, to return a lost item to a non-Jew, if one can make a kiddush hashem by doing so, he should, or at least should be encouraged to do so.
Machlouf decided to make a kiddush hashem and return the money to its owner. I am posting here to help publicize the kiddush hashem he chose to make.
When asked about it on the radio, Machlouf explained that he knew he was not obligated to return it, and it might even be not allowed, but to make a kiddush hashem it is allowed, and that is why he decided to return it. Machlouf added that because of Corona he decided to go the extra mile and beyond the letter of the law, and requested of Hashem that He do so as well, with us.
Needless to say, the owner of the money was very grateful that it was returned to him and called Machlouf a holy person. Machlouf definitely made his kiddush hashem.
sources: Haredim10 and Kol Hai News
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