The Haredi lecturer and media personality Efrat Barzel sent me this picture and an explanation alongside it:
""Every Elul I try to stick to the book of a great rabbi, the late Rabbi.".
I didn't know that this year my Elul rabbi would be 21 years old. My son Brief died of an illness at the age of 21, and his family wrote a memorial book - 'I will not die because I will live.'.
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This is not an ordinary family memoir, it is a moving illness diary, from the perspective of the patient himself, the parents, friends, and everyone who was privileged to know this young and great soul.
When I finished reading this empowering book, I decided that every guy needs to understand how unthinkable it is to sit in a yeshiva right now. There's also the option of lying in an oncology ward, God forbid, and just dreaming about Elul time.
I went to the Hebron Yeshiva, which, as is well known, teaches in strictly Lehadrin capsules. My son lowered a rope for me from the fifth floor, and so we carried the books up to the boys together.
A few days later he said that the book was being passed from hand to hand, maybe a few more copies were needed in the next shipment of rope.".
• From Yedidia Meir's column in 'B'Sheva''
