Helping the Highway Helpless
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Helping the Highway Helpless
R’ Ovadia Yosef[1] was asked if one
sees a car that broke down on the highway and the driver of the car is standing
on the shoulder of the road helplessly if there an obligation for other
experienced drivers on the road to pull over and to assist the stranded driver
in any way possible by repairing the car or offering him helpful advice?
Rabbi Alt merited to learn under the tutelage of R’ Mordechai Friedlander
Ztz”l for close to five years. He received Semicha from R’ Zalman Nechemia
Goldberg. Rabbi Alt has written on numerous topics for various websites and
publications. He lives with his wife and family in a suburb of Yerushalayim
where he studies, writes and teaches. The author is passionate about teaching
Jews of all levels of observance.
[1] Yechaveh Daas 5:6.
[2] Hilchos Rotzeach U’Shmiras
Hanefesh, 13:1. We know of the Shabsai Frankel editions of the Rambam which has
helped tremendously with the learning of the Rambam. R’ Shabsai Frankel
(1909-2000) was a successful philanthropist and publisher of Torah books. His
father, R’ Yosef Frankel, was a prominent Gerrer Chassid in Poland whose son
Alexander married a granddaughter of the Gerrer Rebbe, the Imrei Emes. R’
Shabsai married the daughter of R’ Yosef Nechemya Kornitzer, a great-grandson
of the Chassam Sofer and the Chief Rabbinical Justice in Krakow. During
World War 2, R’ Shabsai fled Poland for Vilna and then he eventually immigrated
to The United States. In America, R’ Shabsai joined with the likes of R’ Reuven
Grozovsky in helping save European Jews from the Holocaust. In 1970,
after succeeding in business, R’ Shabsai moved to Eretz Yisrael to fulfill
his lifelong dream: He wished to publish a new, corrected edition of the
Rambam’s Mishna Torah. R’ Shabsai established a Kollel—which he funded from his
own money—of select Talmudic scholars who would actually put together the
new print of the Rambams’ works as well as a comprehensive index of various
other rabbinical commentaries and citations who dealt with Rambam’s rulings.
The first volume was printed in 1973 and the last was finished in 2007.
[3] Choshen Mishpat 272:8.