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Struggles are not uncommon. Many times when a person is having major yissurim, friends and family will help them through. It’s not every day, however, that the person struggling is one of the most respected rabbanim in the world. And it’s definitely not every day that the friend is revered ‘Sar HaTorah’ Rav Chaim Kanievsky.
We seldom get looks into the personal relationships of the leading Torah scholars. In a recent heartfelt handwritten letter, however, Rav Kanievsky tells the story of a close friend in need.

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The Vaad HaRabbanim offices are a busy hub of applications, phone calls, and checks. One family at a time, the details are checked and those in need are able to get help. One phone call in the hachnasas kallah department recently however, left an employee speechless.
“It was absolutely heartbreaking.”
Blumi Yaverbom, a smiley young kindergarten teacher with glasses, has been through more than most girls her age. For most of her life, abuse and chaos wreaked havoc on her family. Ultimately, rabbanim got involved. The 9 Yaverbom kids now live with their mother, who works full time as a cosmetic salesperson to support them.

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A RARE REQUEST FROM THE GADOL HADOR (Haskama below)
“BSD Cheshvan 5782
I ask everyone to partner with me to save the life of my friend, a huge talmid chacham…His situation has touched my heart and is close to being one of pikuach nefesh. All those who help, I will remember them for good. They will merit to raise their children to Torah and to the chuppah, and no sickness or harm should befall upon their families. They will be blessed with children, life and sustenance. 
Chaim Kanievsky”

[COMMUNICATED]The fundamental and popularly-quoted responsum of the Posek Hador and author of Igros Moshe Harav Moshe Feinstein writes regarding wearing wigs: “Most of our Rabbis, including those that we rely on for the fundamentals of deciding halachah, permit it.” After delivering this verdict, he explains the rationale of permitting a married woman to wear a wig and sharply addresses the letter writer who wished to act stringently and forbid his wife from wearing a wig…

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“We’ve got to get this baby out – NOW.”
Tension and adrenaline filled the delivery room last month, as doctors fought to save 22-year-old Esther Blau’s unborn child. Esther had come in for her second birth and was treated as a typical young patient. When she collapsed and her vitals began to drop, the race began to deliver her son.
The child was born healthy and is now 2 weeks old. Esther, however, tragically passed away.
Her husband, Yoel Blau is now left with two children ( a 1-year-old and a newborn) who will never know their mother. The child’s bris was emotional for everyone present. His name is Yaakov Yeshaya.

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Hello, my name is Rabbi Dovid Friedman.* Baruch Hashem, I’ve had the opportunity for several years now to do the very special mitzvah of bris milah for young couples. There have been many challenges and curveballs throughout the years, a child who woke up jaundiced the morning of the bris, a cab ride that had me arriving home from an out of town simcha 10 minutes before shabbos, the usual. But there is one bris that I know I will never forget: That’s the bris of the Blau baby.

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Hundreds wept in agony last night at the levaya of 22-year-old mother of 2, Esther Blau. Esther reportedly became very weak during pregnancy with her second child. During labor, she lost consciousness and entered into a coma. Her son was miraculously born healthy. Despite the community’s desperate prayers for her recovery, they were forced to give her son a bris without her: the child’s name is Yaakov Yeshaya.
Esther passed away yesterday, leaving behind a shocked husband and two children who will never know her.

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