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Astounding Discovery Made at a Shiva Home

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it was a regular work day when alex schaefer got a call from his close friend who asked him for a favor this lady had passed away and in need of a minion and she doesn't have any family so if i could help him out to set up a minion so i said sure not a problem alex made a few calls within a half hour a group of guys showed up at the apartment they dive in the hammer if they said kadash they learned some schneiders with the corner of my eye i saw a plug hanging on the wall and it said sinai academy on it i was thought like hmm i'm a product of cyanide academy that's interesting and suddenly alex recognizes his own signature on that plaque he says that's my signature oh my god what's my signature doing on this flag and i got a yoshi come take a look at this your signature is here as well he rushes in he looked in close look yeah that's my signature oh my god that's my other classmates slowly but surely so many people in that minion identified their own signature and we started going crazy about this place like what is this who's this lady how come is this hanging on her all [Music] it turns out 30 years earlier when alex and his friends were just kids they went to sinai academy and marilyn this woman who just passed away donated a safer torah to the school i remember the excitement of receiving a torah it was new to me being an immigrant from soviet union i really know what it is exactly it was like a big deal for the school it was an amazing feeling in an effort to express gratitude all the children of the school signed that plaque which said thank you for helping ensure that the torah will never be forgotten by the children and perpetuating the receiving of the torah at sinai and now three decades later in a moment of incredible hajj's protest these children who were now grown men with children of their own were standing in her apartment perpetuating her memory making sure that her support for toro will not be forgotten the energy of finding out this that after so many years that we were kids receiving a door and now where this lady's house is davening for her it was something incredible you know i feel the story sheds light on the words we say every rosh hashanah hashem opens the ledger on judgement day that has all the plaques of all the actions we have done throughout our lifetime the ghost there is a signature on each page our signature we sign on those actions that we did but maybe just maybe those signatures aren't our own each page in that ledger is filled with signatures of all the people that were impacted by our actions they come to sign they validate they confirm and like alex and his friends they are called to remember marilyn's act of kindness on her ultimate day of judgment at a time when she needed it most any missus that you do now do not expect things to happen right away in return because you never know what happened tomorrow what happened the day after tomorrow or might happen after you die don't count for the quick reward look at the bigger picture [Music] so [Music] so you