An Exterminating Job Results in a Karkafta

Everything is B’Hashgacha Pratis, and that fact was not lost on Rabbi Chaim Rosenstein. He penned the following after an encounter with an exterminator resulted in a Karkafta.

I met our exterminator, 39 year old Jonathan Mann, this morning. He was born to a Jewish mother and Gentile father.

During the inspection of our home, he divulged to me that his Aunt has numbers on her arm. I asked him “are you Jewish” he replied “partially”… “Only from my mother’s side”. Jonathan said he had a bris, but never put on Tefillin. I ask him “are you ready for your bar mitzvah?”

After laying tefillin and reciting Shema, he said “Rabbi, I feel better today”.