Yahrtzeit of Rav Moshe Feinstein ZTL

a boy came over to rosha Feinstein to ask him aasha and learning but he noticed that rosha was in tremendous Agony because he was suffering from a sciatica attack and he said no no it's not a problem I'll ask the rash Shiva a different time and rosha said no now is the perfect time to talk and learning because Torah is our life now is the time that I want to talk to you rosha was always learning teaching or writing he had his finger on the place in every single aspect of katula and when asked by a talid how he became so great in Torah he answered that it's hard work and has Whenever there was a half a minute to spare rosha would be looking into a safer whether wrapping up hisin or waiting for AA in the Yeshiva during in between Alias he would be brought a mishas to be able to capitalize on those few moments of learning Toro was his love and his passion and he understood that everybody in clausell has the ability to achieve that greatness like the story told over by RAB FR Meo Shapiro about a young boy who thought that it would be funny to prank call One of the GD hador of mosha Feinstein and at 11:30 at night he called up and the rebbit and told him that he's sleeping should I wake him and he said yes and when rosha came to the phone he realized very quickly that this was a joke and he he asked the boy what are you learning and he told him the M they asked him what and he told him and rosha said let me ask you aasha and Tois and then he said do you understand and the boy said no and he learned the Gora Rashi and Tois together with this boy over the phone at this late hour until he finally understood and at that point he said now let me explain to you my Kasha and toist and then the boy understood and he said wow that's an incredible question and the boy was crying and his parents came over and said what's wrong he said rosha Feinstein Believes In Me and if he believes in me then I should believe in myself and moving forward I'm going to commit myself to real learning and rosha was able to impact the lives of all of kisel through the numerous roles that he held as rashash of missa to feris as chairman of the Moes G hator president of the Ezra Torah and of course his leadership roles in the A and Tor rosha had an impact on everybody rosha was the leading posac in the world answering questions covering the full gamut of sh questions related to life and death matters of modern technology and so much more and his influence knowledge and moral values had an impact on the entire world at large when New York governor you carry was looking to pass legislation that would involve pulling the plug on a patient that's on a respirator or mosa said that this is murder and when Governor KY heard that that is the opinion of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein he immediately stopped the legislation and while simultaneously doing his utmost for the CLA revm motion never lost sight of every individual like the time when he was asked to attend a fundraising meeting in the Hilton on behalf of missa to feram and he said that I can't make it because that's the night of a wedding that I was invited to by a girl who is an orphan he said I don't know who the girl is personally but she called me up and she asked me to come to the wedding and told me that it would be very meaningful so I can't attend the meeting another time rosha was headed out to an important meeting and right before he got into the car there was a needy fellow who came over to him asking for money and rosha took out money and he gave it to him but then the fellow started the conversation and rosha began listening to him and people that were around were saying that you know maybe we should tell this individual that Rosa's got to go this is at a very important meeting of the Moet Torah and rosha said no and he continued listening to the man and later on he was asked why didn't he just give him the money and excuse himself right away and rosha responded my Mitzvah of Sedaka isn't just giving him money it's about showing him that I care about him and that I'm not too too busy to take the time out to listen to him and on the 13th of Adar 5746 the hatah took rmoa to the hospital and as the ambulance was heading there he felt his strength waning and he let out his final words I don't have any more strength such unbelievable words how much strength did he have already in those final Years yet whatever strength he had it was devoted to Torah to clausell and of course to the rabona Shalom the police department prepared for the largest funeral that American Orthodoxy had ever known over a 100,000 people packed the streets of the Lower East Side businesses chartered buses in order for employees to be able to attend schools all gathered together to be able to show their respect to rmha and when he was taken to erit over 250,000 people gathered together for this levah making it the largest funeral since the times of RAB B Zak let us take the time today to reflect on the incredible greatness of rosha his vast Torah knowledge his Unstoppable Torah learning and his great empathy for every single Jew and let's ask ourselves what can I do right now to become a little bit more like RHA finds the [Music]