A Dying Wish - R. Shlomo Farhi - TorahAnytime.com

rabbaria levine when he was about to pass away he was crying and his children came to him and they said why are you crying all you did was mitzvot all he did was study torah you worried about going to you'll be fine there's a special chair with your name carved in it ribaria levine he says i'm not crying for me he said who are you crying for maybe they thought he was crying for them the children he says i'm crying for you he says i'm crying for all the prisoners in jail and all the lepers in the hospital in the contagious hospital who will be their rabbi i was the only one that went to the prisons that cared about the worst elements of society to try to rehabilitate them i was the only one that was willing to go into the hospitals where it was a danger of catching something because i felt so badly for people that were crying out i would go blow so far i was the only one that would go who's going to be the rabbi of the prisoner of the contagious disease stricken individual it made such an impression on his son rabbi rafael that he promised his father on his deathbed that every roshana i'm going to go i'll be the one that goes that takes over your place and with that his father was comforted could you imagine those thoughts being your last thoughts on earth who's going to take care of the prisoner materia who's going to take care of the sick what a way to emulate boreh olam himself may we be to have those kind of hearts beating in our chests forevermore you