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Eight speakers share the encounters that left them speechless

There was a crackle on the line, and the voice coming through the speaker was muffled. Muffled, but familiar

The excitement, the energy, the… the sparkle. Who said it was reserved for twenty-year-olds?

Whenever Rabbi Whittow had to buy a new car, the Rosh Yeshivah told him to weigh only two considerations

Poor Shevy, she’d been so happy to have a sister to rely on, and that sister was proving far too wrapped up in her own life to help out 

I just stood there, crying, in front of 100 guests. I kept trying to speak, but I couldn’t do it