~Albert Einstein
I have a good friend whose name is Shmuel. That is his first name. Shmuel is the Hebrew form of Samuel. In the Torah, he was the son of Hannah, a prophet and a judge who anointed Saul as the first king of Israel. Hannah prayed and prayed for a son and when Shmuel was born she was fulfilled. My friend's mother prayed for 2.5 years to give birth to him; and she was successful.
The man named Shmuel that I know who is alive today, is a holy man. He wanted me to read an article that was published about him and I did. The article said that Shmuel ignited "Unconditional Love" in a family. He did research and found a friend's long lost brother and he reunited them. The friend had not seen or heard from his long lost brother in over 50 years. When Shmuel did some research online he found this man's brother and wrote him and told him that his brother was a friend of his and that he misses his brother and that they should reunite. The brothers came together and spent lots of missed time with each other until death did they part.
My friend Shmuel is a good man. He wears a tallit katan and a kippah--he says his parents are religious Jews and that he wears it for them. He is very considerate of his parents' feelings. He is a young man--only 29 years old but studied at a Rabbinical High School in France for 5 years. If one wants to know the meaning of a close family--Shmuel's family is a prime example--Shmuel has 9 siblings: 9 brothers and sisters. I think coming from a large family gives him a lot of support. It is so nice to know someone whose family means everything to him.
Knowing a "family man" is a real miracle in my life. My father was a family man and so I grew up with this attachment and now 23.5 years after my father's death--I see this family love in another man. It is SO good to see it. May Adonai bless him.
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