This is a true story that happened in Russia about 140
years ago A girl named Reizel gave some money to
a Aniyim non-Jewish boy named Stephan so he could go to
the city and study Many years later she was asked by
Reb Elchonon Spektor to go to the governor of their
town as an emissary and beg him not to draft their boys
into the czar's army for twenty five years, as was the
rule then The governor turned out to be none other
than Stephan, who of course granted her request |