Living Torah Archives

Yaakov Abrams is a business appraiser and author on business evaluation, living in Los Angeles, California. He was married to his wife Chana in the mid-1980s. (1986)

Mrs. Chaya Hecht served as an early education teacher in Brooklyn, New York, for over five decades. In the early 1950s, shortly after he had assumed leadership of the Chabad movement, she had an audience with the Rebbe. The Rebbe asked her if she was praying every day. When she answered that she didn’t really have the time to pray, the Rebbe suggested a new approach. And she’s adopted it as a part of her daily life.