Los Angeles’ Skid Row is usually a place most people try to avoid. Packed with homeless people’s tents and deviants of all sorts, it’s the type of place that regular folk steer far away from. This Tisha B’av, however, a group of bochurim found themselves walking past the homeless tents as they searched for another friend. As they moved past one homeless man’s little fort, he called them over. “I have something very important for you,” he says. The man rummaged around in his tent for a few moments and emerged carrying the shel rosh from a pair of tefillin. The man said that through his time on the streets, whenever the cops would kick him out of areas, he always made sure that no matter what, he kept that shel rosh with him.
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