The Line You Won’t Cross - R. Ari Neuwirth - TorahAnytime.com

So, let me share with you a story that I heard from my warren reich. What it means that principles and principles is based on truth. He had an an aunt that lived in England. And they had nine children. And unfortunately, one day out of the blue, her husband had a massive heart attack and died suddenly. Leaving her a widow with nine orphaned children. She had to raise them all by herself. Her name was Mrs. Sternbach. The war was coming. World War II was starting. Winston Churchill announced that there's going to be a kinder transport. A boat transporting 2,000 children from England to America. And it was pretty easy to get onto that boat. And Mrs. Sternbach wanted to send her nine children to America to be raised by her relatives. Where there was money, there would be chinuch, she thought. And she thought it was a good idea. But she says, "I cannot do such a thing. Such a massive question. Sending my children from England to America. How How can I do that? I can't make the decision on my own. I need I don't have a husband. I need to ask das Torah. The das Torah that she had was Rav Elyashiv the great Tom Chacha, the great mashgiach. She went to Rav Elyashiv and presented the shaila of the question. Rav Elyashiv says, "This question is too big for me to answer. The only way I can give you an answer is if I do the goiral hagro. But I only do the goiral hagro after a tainis. But I'm too old. I'm too weak. And I just can't fast. I can only fast on Mondays and Thursdays. That's the days I fast anyways. So this Thursday, I am going to fast anyways, and I'll do the grow the gorilla grow Thursday night, and Friday morning I'll have an answer for you. She comes to him Friday morning. Nu, so what's the answer? I'm so sorry. I don't have an answer. Why not? I didn't do the gorilla grow. Why not? Because I was too weak and too frail, I wasn't able to fast. So I didn't do the grow. I'm going to do it Monday. Come back to me Monday night. Comes back Monday night. The boat was leaving Tuesday morning. He says I didn't do it. I didn't fast. I was too weak, too frail. She says, "So what should I do? The boat's leaving tomorrow morning. Should I send my children or not?" He says, "I don't know. I don't have an answer." She went home to her nine children, and she told them, "You are not going to America because we don't have an answer. And if we don't have an answer, we're not going because I don't know if it's the right thing." After the boat left, a little later, Winston Churchill got on the radio and sadly announced that the enemies fired a torpedo at that boat containing 2,000 children. Almost every single one of them perished. Could you imagine if she would have sent her children? Wha- Why you Why did this happen? Cuz she was a woman of principles. A woman of truth. If I don't have an answer, if I don't have best prior telling me what to do, I won't do it. And look, it saved her children.