Where Is the Money?
At weddings Reb Dovid Leib would walk among the tables and call out in Yiddish, asking where the money was. Once a young man placed a coin in his hand for tzedakah. Reb Dovid Leib blessed him that he should grow to be a great man, a God-fearing and wholehearted Jew.
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