“But the Army needs you in artillery. Here are your deployment papers. They’re waiting for you in Tan Son Nhut, where you’ll get advanced training. Good luck.”
“We’ve heard stories,” the father tells me authoritatively. “Doctors miss things. We want to make sure it’s just a stomach bug, and not something worse.”
Rav Yechiel Perr believed in pushing his talmidim to their maximum, yet he was no anxious perfectionist. He taught young men to calmly live life doing what’s right and figure out ...