The Matzav Shmoooze: Send The Text – It Could Accomplish So Much

Dear [email protected],

Eli Solomon recently shared the following with me:

There was once a Yid who spent a Shabbos with several strangers at a family simcha. He had the opportunity to observe several Yeshivah bochrim over that Shabbos. He truthfully felt that several of the boys made very good impressions in terms of their middos and the like. He had the opportunity to speak to several of them but one in particular more than the others. He asked who the boy was and realized that he knew who his father was, but never met the father in person. It didn’t take him long to make an immediate “texting connection.” This meant that the Yid immediately thought of someone that he knew who would know the father and he texted him for the father’s number. He then texted the father. “We don’t know each other, but I had the pleasure of spending time with your son over Shabbos. He is a great boy, lots of nachas.”

That was all it took.

There’s nothing wrong with texting someone in today’s day and age that you don’t know, have never met, may not meet for years to come, just to send him a nachas report.

We don’t only have to report to the people we know. Imagine if this was 1984, and you wanted to reach someone random person in another city or State to tell him that his son behaved well over Shabbos. No one would have bothered back then. Its too difficult, and too confrontational over the phone. Texting is the easiest way to make the connection.

G. T.

Ramat Bet Shemesh

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