Community Magazine March 2019

24 Community Magazine LUXURY LIVING IN MIDWOOD Ocean Parkway and Ave S Area - TWO Home Bundle - PURCHASE PRICE $10M - Single Family Home : 5 Bedrooms with over 6,000 Sq FtHeated limestone floors, center foyer with grand staircase, oversized dining and living area Large master suite with his and her closets, jacuzzi, gym and more 2 Family Home : Over 4,000 Sq Ft with a large front and back yard. 1st floor contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with a large kitchen , dining and living area 2nd floor contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with dome ceilings and large living area Aryeh Brecher | NMLS #1401181 Loan Officer (718) 877-5160 (212) 897-2220 abrecher@fmm.com Contact me for a FREE pre-approval David Heskiel 646-907-8474 dheskiel@wolfprop.com LUXURY LIVING IN MIDWOOD Ocean Parkway and Ave S Area - TWO Home Bundle - PURCHASE PRICE $10M - Single Family Home : 5 Bedrooms with over 6,000 Sq FtHeated limestone floors, center foyer with grand staircase, oversized dining and living area Large master suite with his and her closets, jacuzzi, gym and more 2 Family Home : Over 4,000 Sq Ft with large front and back yard. 1st floor contai s 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with a large kitchen , dining and living area 2nd floor contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with dome ceilings and large living area Aryeh Brecher | NMLS #1401181 Loan Officer 7 8 7 516 (212) 897-2220 abrecher@fmm.com Contact me for a FREE pre-approval David Heskiel Vice President 646-907-8474 dheskiel@wolfprop.com LUXURY LIVING IN MIDWOOD Ocean Parkway and Ave Area - TWO Home Bundle - PURCHASE PRICE $10M - Single Family H me : 5 Bedrooms with ove 6,000 Sq FtH ated limestone floors, center foyer with grand staircase, oversized dining and living area Large master suite with his and her closets, jacuzzi, gym and more 2 Family Home : Over 4,000 Sq Ft with a l rge front and back yard. 1st fl r contains 3 bedr oms an 2 bathroom with a large kitchen , ining and living area 2nd floor contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with dome ceilings and large living area Aryeh Brecher | NMLS #1401181 Loan Officer (718) 877-5160 (212) 897-2220 abrecher@fmm.com Contact me for a FREE pre-approval David Heskiel Vice President 646-907-8474 dheskiel@wolfprop.com LUXURY LIVING IN MIDWOOD Ocean Parkway and Ave Area - TWO Home Bundle - PURCHASE PRICE $10M - Single Family Home : 5 Bedrooms with ove 6,000 Sq FtH ated limestone floors, center foyer with grand staircase, oversized dining and living area Large master suite with his and her closets, jacuzzi, gym and more 2 Family Home : Over 4,000 Sq Ft with a l rge front and back yard. 1st fl r contains 3 bedr oms an 2 bathroom with large kitchen , ining and living area 2nd floor contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with dome ceilings and large living area Aryeh Brecher | NMLS #1401181 Loan Officer (718) 877-516 (212) 897-2220 abrecher@fmm.com Contact me for a FREE pre-approval David Heskiel Vice President 646-907-8474 dheskiel@wolfprop.com Seeing Gd’s Hand Now we can understand the halakha not to read the megillah backwards. I might have thought that it was advantageous to start from the end. That way, I am immediately revealing the Divine hand before recounting the natural circumstances that led to the salvation - going from light to dark. No, we are supposed to read it forwards, beginning in the darkness of the concealment, saying, “So what? Why is this relevant?” Whenever I travel with my family and unexpected events start to happen, I turn to everyone in the car and say, “I want to make an announcement. The hashgacha pratit has begun. The wheels of the Divine plan are in motion. There is no reason to complain. We may not yet know why this is happening. We may never know. But we are sure that there is a good reason.” Take for example the story of a Holocaust survivor, a baker, who lives in New York. His whole family perished except for him and his little sister. He tells the story how, after losing his parents, he felt responsible for the fate of his little sister. Every day, before he would go to work, he would rebuke her to be careful and stay out of the Nazis’ path. One day, he returned from work, but where was his sister? She was gone. He found out that a couple of SS officers had come and taken her. He was a young kid, but overcome with emotion, he stormed down to the Nazi headquarters, screaming in German, “Where’s my sister?” The commanding officer hears the commotion and comes stomping down, with all his medals and decorations bouncing on his uniform. The soldiers tell him that this little Jew is claiming that we picked his sister up today, and he says he’s not leaving until we release her. The officer looks down at him and says, “When you grow hair on the palms of your hands, that’s when you’ll see your sister.” In other words, you’ll never see her again. The Jewish youth stands there, turns to the Nazi and calmly opens his hand to display a hairy palm. The officer cries out, “Satan! The devil is here!! Get this kid out of here and let the sister go!” They open the door and the sister falls out on him. They make their way back to the ghetto and eventually escape. What happened? He explained that when he was a child, he burnt his hand and the doctor did a skin graft from a part of his body that grew hair, and eventually, he had a hairy palm. He said that his whole life, he was bothered why Gd would do this to him. “Why do I have to be a freak?” His palm was such an embarrassment. “Now I understand! It was all to save my sister.” Getting to See the Whole Picture The Chafetz Chaim said that because he merited to live a long life, he was able to see things come about full circle. Most people didn’t understand why things happened to Mr. So-and- so. But he was able to see how, through the course of the years, לעילוי נשמתם של משה בן עליזה, יצחק הלל בן עליזה, והנרייט לאה בת עליזה, דוד בן גילה, רבקה בת גילה, יהושע בן גילה, משה בן גילה, שרה בת גילה, יעקב בן גילה, ואליאנה בת גילה. ולרפואה שלמה ליוסף בן אהובה מסעודה, שילת אהובה בת עליזה, ודניאל בן עליזה.