He said he was going to shul… and he never came back.
At first, the Cohen* family couldn’t believe that it could be true. They called the police, sure that their father was missing. Who would leave behind 13 kids? Who would just walk out the door one day and never come back?
But what they didn’t know was that Rabbi Cohen was breaking under the weight of hundreds of thousands of shekels of debt. He couldn’t take it anymore. And so he left. And his large family, from big teens all the way down to babies, haven't seen their mother since.
It’s a painful story to think about, but even more painful to live: Mrs. Cohen always relied on her husband to support her family. Now she is on her own. Rav Meir Sirota, who knows the family’s situation, says they don’t even have food to eat.
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*Details changed to protect the family’s privacy