Promise of a Gadol - R. Eli Stefansky - TorahAnytime.com

report it. So I knew I knew I saw him I watched him learn many hours and probably said two words to him my entire life but he was the rash of the mirror in Brooklyn and he's known as the one of the biggest I didn't measure exactly but that's what they said about him like he's he never stopped learning he was always always with his went to collect money at some person's house and the guy says I want to give you a very large check. So he says why? He says because of your dad my wife is alive now and I we had a great marriage and a long this that. So he says he says your father gave her a braha that she should live. He promised my mother she's going to live. So the son says I know my father. He's never done something like that. It's not true. It's impossible. He's a rasha. He he doesn't make he says no no no let me tell you what happened he says your father was sitting shiva and the shiva was over and he he was in such pain that he didn't he wasn't learning and that's by the way a lot of people after shiva they come to me and they tell me the the one thing that I cared about the whole shiv was the daf didn't do the daf the daf but don't worry about it I'm not going to make it up I skipped ahead and and most people do make it up they tell I already did and I do two daff a day a whole thing I'm already caught up basically fine is itching to learn he walks out of the shiva he's walking towards the yeshiva and this woman stops him say rashiva she says about herself her daughter is very very sick with the maka could you please come in for a minute and give her a braha he's going to say no she says okay fine so he walks up and and he gives her a braha and the mother says no No, no, no. I want the should give me a that she's going to live. He says, "No, no, no. I don't get positioned herself by the door." You know, she says, "No, no, no. Could you uh I need to go learn?" She made him crazy. And was crazy, so to speak, to go learn. He wanted to learn. He was just dying to learn. She says, and she's going to get a good also. No king of skips the whole story all over again and finally he caved in and he gave her the braha. I think it was like another thing I forgot what the third thing was and off he runs to the bish and he starts learning with this and then he tells wait a minute I got to I got to go to the side. So said he's never seen go to the side. So he follows him and he hears say, "You know that I'm your biggest fan. You know that I missed you this whole week. Don't let me down. Don't make don't make me make aem. I promise this woman do me a favor. Take care of it. Take care of it." And he goes back to this to learn. That was the miso.