And I Remembered My Covenant, Jacob, to Grasp the Rope on the Side Closest to Us.

On the 28th of Sivan in 1858, at dawn, Rabbi Meir Shapira, zt"l - founder and head of the "Chachmei Lublin" yeshiva - made his way to the cemetery in his city. In the hours that followed, Lublin was expected to be filled with people, as crowds flocked to the exalted ceremony of the inauguration of the yeshiva, which was to open at three in the afternoon. Years later, Rabbi Shapira revealed to his close disciple, Rabbi Yosef Halperin z"l of Manch…