Halvayat Ha-Met (Caring for the Dead)

Choosing a mitzvah over material and spiritual riches

Meditate on loving-kindness throughout your daily activities

Must the “right” or “good” thing always be hard, or is a quick fix just as good?

“Rabbi Fraenkel, my mother is set to be cremated, her body burned and pulverized, her soul never to find peace,” her voice cracked in obvious desperation.

“I’m sorry,” he told the shocked family. “We took out the wrong casket.”

Told that a Jewish man died with little family, Rabbi Ephraim Simon guaranteed him a proper burial.