Mentchlikeit II

Earlier this month, Rabbi Irwin Kula and Rabbi Tzvi Blanchard of CLAL visited Baton Rouge. Prior to a meeting with the general Jewish community, the Rabbis met with Jewish LSU students. At this meeting they heard the following story, which Rabbi Kula retold later that evening.

Rabbi Kula told us about a young man named Kyle, who shared with his fellow students how proud he was of his father. Kyle’s family was planning to leave Baton Rouge before the Katrina hit. Their house was on the market in those crazy days following the storm when home prices shot through the roof and desperate people were buying properties sight-unseen. Kyle said that his father, Randy, told the family that they were not raising the price on the house. He refused to take advantage of his fellow citizens misfortunes.

Of course Rabbi Kula was talking about our Randy and Kyle. This story is another reason to miss Randy and Donna. It is also makes us as proud of them as Kyle is.