Yesterday, July 9, 2015 – 22 Tammuz – was the 142^nd Yahrzeit of Admor Dovid Morgenstern, Dovid ben Menachem Mendel, known by Kotzker Chassidim in Europe as the Mittler (Middle) Rebbe.  He was born in 1809. Refer to my post from last year.

I did not really do anything. I did say a Kal Maalah (prayer for the departed) for him; however, I only said it for myself, as Chazzan Silber told me we do not say Kal Maalah for old ancestors because they are already bound up with God.

I left work late and walked to the mail box on Lincoln to mail out a protest to a parking ticket I received, through almost no fault of my own. I bumped in Rabbi Yitzchok Kalish, a Breslever Chosid from Israel and a third cousin to me. I was happy to see him as he has not been in Chicago for years.    We made up a time to meet. I drove him to Great Chicago and of couse, if you read my post about my father’s Yahrzeit, I paid for his dinner.