Rav Drukman: Hineni
This past Friday my daughter’s school had a mother-daughter event dedicated to the memory of Rav Chaim Drukman, my husband’s former Rosh Yeshiva, who passed away this month.
Reading about Rav Drukman in the mother-daughter learning sheets the school prepared and hearing about his tireless dedication to and his limitless love for Jews and the Jewish people moved me deeply. Even when he was nearly 90 and his health was failing over the course of his final years, he would sleep only a few hours a night and pack as much as he could into his days–in order to help as many people and spread as much Torah as he could.
A mother sitting next to me shared that once her husband needed to meet urgently with Rav Drukman, and the Rav said, “Come at 3 AM tonight, after my final appointment.”
But the quotation that moved me to tears was this one, at the bottom of the learning sheet. Which I am sharing with you here:)
This reminds me to push myself a little bit harder to give a little bit more to my family, to my community, to my people. Whatever Hashem places on my plate. like Rav Drukman zts”l always would.
