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My in-laws were the type to show up three days before Yom Tov and start planning everything the next morning

Would the music of my father, Moshe Yess a”h, be relegated to a pile of scratched oldies in someone’s basement?

I have spent many an hour with Chaim over the last 15 years, listening to his pain and hearing his sobs

It summed everything up: Make yourself at home, and in the meantime, let’s learn Torah, because that’s what life is about

“Rabbi, I want to tell you a story that happened to me when I was boy, growing up in Eretz Yisrael”

Chaim continued to insist the din be followed with no exceptions