The Passing of the Mashgiach Harav Matisyahu Salomon The Week of Miriam Waiting At the River

this evening to our utter dismay and sadness we heard the B of the of the great Mas of the lake as this news is very fresh and very raw I can't help but think of the connection between the of RA and there are so many classic and epic that the has on and we'll discuss them uh later on in the week but there's one particular story that is resonating with me very profoundly at this time this is a story I heard many years ago at first I couldn't remember remember where I heard it from it had something to do with Rio's mother the details were unclear connected to why felt he was to become the Mas of the Lakewood Yesa and I asked around nobody seemed to know anything about it I called up one of I said I think the mash said it over at his installation as in Lakewood and this time it said no I was there I remember everything he said he didn't say over this such a story I checked around nothing there's no record of it and so I asked this Tom mik maybe you could uh give me a clue maybe you could give me some details so he gave me the number of RA rat's oldest son-in-law and he said you know the based on the details that you're saying it sounds Vaguely Familiar maybe I heard something like that I said no that's not good enough I don't want to a verification based on something which is Vaguely Familiar who can I call he said call my other brother-in-law halin so I called Rao's son-in-law halin and he said yes Rio said over the story but not at his installation but when he was honored by the Lakewood Yeshiva it was about 15 years ago this my conversation with uh re halin took place about uh a year and a half ago and it was at the Brooklyn Marriott this RAB hin says I'll tell you the truth I try to get a recording of it after there's no recording there was no record of it nobody wrote it up it doesn't exist but this is what the story that raat said so R is being honored by the Lakeisha it's a big event it's a big coved he gets up there and he turns the whole thing on its head he says this is not a dinner in my honor it's my mother without a doubt says the mash I want to tell you why Hashem has given me this to become the mash of the lakea in 1941 rabara of KET it had to relocate to VNA because of the war and the vad Salah had a deal in place to Rescue of Aon Cutler but it wasn't certain would it be through England or or would it be through America meanwhile this was during the blitz where the Germans were bombing England every night dropping hundreds of bombs incendiary devices and someone from the vat solah had a be waiting at the phone in England on the designated night and it was determined it was a Friday night and the needed some to wait at the phone the whole shabas in case the call would come in that Rabin was coming to England and a young girl Young etto Solomon volunteered to wait the whole chabas in a secure bunker at the phone in case the call would come in to save the life of raron Cutler and more than 75 years later ET salomon's son M Solomon declared that in the Merit of his mother who waited at the phone for 2 24 hours in case she was needed to save the life of abaron like Miriam Han who we read in this week's para just like Miriam waited at the riverbank to see what would be the fet of her brother she was waiting waiting what could she do to help her brother and we know K Us in the Merit of Miriam waiting there she was to Greatness Solomon says in the Merit that his mother waited at that phone Friday night 1941 to save the life of Aaron Cutler he is certain that her son was to become the Mason Cutler and Salomon Returns His on high reuniting with his mother the week that we read in the amen