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Friday 4 April 2014

OBITUARY

I AM SURE EVEN WHEN I AM DEAD ALL THOSE PEOPLE  WHO HAVE NOTING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT ME NOW WHEN I AM ALIVE, WILL FIND SOMETHING  GOOD TO SAY  ( that they think I did good  ).
MOST PEOPLE HAVE VERY LITTLE UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR FELLOW HUMAN BEING, NOT EVEN THEIR PARTNER ( understanding another human being is very complicated ).
I WAS READING IN THE HAMODIA 3 APRIL 2014  ON REB MENDEL HOCHHAUSER Z.L HIS OBITUARY, I REMEMBERED A STORY THAT HAPPENED YEARS AGO WHEN I USED TO DAVEN IN THE AGUDA 95 STAMFORD HILL.
REB MENDEL Z.L. OPENED A SIDDUR AND SAID THE THREE-FACETED BLESSING AFTER FOOD FROM A SIDDUR .
HE TURNED TO ME AND SAID: " I USED TO ALWAYS SAY THIS BLESSING BY HEART,
LATELY I REALISED THAT I WAS LEAVING OUT A WORD, FROM THAT DAY ON I SAY ALMOST EVERYTHING FROM A SIDDUR."
LIKE THE OBITUARY IN THE HAMODIA WRITES HIS DAVENNING WAS PERFORMED WITH CONCENTRATION AND DEDICATION, HE SAID CLEARLY EVERY WORD.
 I REMEMBER THAT OVER SIXTY YEARS AGO THERE WERE THREE VERY GOOD FRIENDS AND YOU COULD NOT PART THEM,
REB  MENDEL HOUHHAUSER Z. L
YBLC"T   REB  MAX FREUDENBERGER. AND REB  KALMAN  BERKOVITS, THE YETZOR HORAH WANTED TO BREAK UP THIS VERY GOOD FRIENDSHIP, THEY WERE IN BUSINESS TOGETHER AND WERE ALL VERY SUCCESSFUL (  but this was all a plan from the yetzor  horah ).
AS ALWAYS MONEY BRINGS A DISPUTE AND THEY NEVER TALKED TO EACH OTHER EVER AGAIN.
 RABBI MORDCHE YOSEPH KAMIONKA  SHLIT"A TOLD ME A FEW TIMES THAT THIS DISTURBED HIM VERY MUCH.
I WAS NOT SURPRISED WHEN THE HAMODIA WROTE THAT MANY SOUGHT HIS COUNSEL AND ADVICE IN BUSINESS DISPUTES,WHENEVER HE WAS CALLED UPON TO ARBITRATE.
HE ALWAYS REMEMBERED HIS FRIENDSHIP WHICH WAS BROKEN UP THROUGH MONEY DISPUTES.
WHO WAS RIGHT I DO NOT KNOW TILL THIS VERY DAY BUT WHAT I DO KNOW IS THAT IN THE LAST SIXTY YEARS I HAVE NEVER SEEN A FRIENDSHIP LIKE THEIRS.
  

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