יום שלישי, כ״ח אב תשפ״וTuesday, August 11, 2026
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‘Uncle’ Morris had told us that when he died he wanted our eldest daughter Rachel to have his wife’s candlesticks, but we brushed it off hoping he would use them for many more years as although not young, he was healthy and active.
Maybe the family had decided to obtain some other tefillin. He didn’t know. But he was sure that Hashem had guided his steps to just this spot to save his father’s tefillin which had obviously been discarded in error.
Eventually one of her daughters persuaded her to go to her doctor and after some tests he diagnosed early onset dementia. It was a tremendous shock to everyone, but the children realized that they would have to learn to help her and their father come to terms with this new reality.
Avi tried to appeal to the bus driver once more but to no avail. He was determined to leave on time. But oddly enough he still hadn’t moved even though it was already several minutes past the allotted time.
Shalom could barely believe the siyata dishmaya. He told her to return the following day and he would try and get some money to help her.
How would Liat and her husband cope with this double bris over Rosh Hashanah? Who would help them?
He had deposited Shlomo’s real, original check into his account, and when it had cleared he had made up this weird story to get an additional 3,600 shekels out of Shlomo!
The soldiers milling around were silent, staring into the distance as if willing the ambulance to arrive faster.
This was just one of the odd things I heard, there were more when we visited the family sitting shiva.
I had imagined it was my mother who would probably miss us the most. But what do we really know about what is happening?
August 7, 2026 
