Rav Dovid Feinstein and the Flight Over a Cemetery
A kohen learned his flight home from Israel would pass over a Jewish cemetery. Rav Dovid Feinstein ruled he must spend whatever it took to avoid it, so he bought a new ticket.
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A kohen learned his flight home from Israel would pass over a Jewish cemetery. Rav Dovid Feinstein ruled he must spend whatever it took to avoid it, so he bought a new ticket.
A new mother faced discharge from hospital on Shabbos. Rav Dovid Feinstein told the couple to offer all their money to stay, to avoid even a rabbinic prohibition.
A mother phones Air Force chaplain Rabbi Binyamin Samson on Shabbos: her son will be baptized. The rabbi talks him into learning Judaism first, and he stays.
Rav Dovid Feinstein, strict about chametz sold over Pesach, buys a bakery's challos the day after Yom Tov: she was closed nine days and needs parnassah.
A girl doubted a fine young man because he wore a gray suit, until she learned the man in gray who visited her sick relative was Rav Dovid Feinstein.
A father blamed his daughter's childlessness on a wedding Rav Dovid Feinstein approved; Rav Dovid had him forgive her before a beis din, and a child soon followed.
Rav Dovid Feinstein personally showed an auditor the yeshiva's books, and the auditor later sent his daughter to him to convert, calling him the most honest man he knew.
When a baker heard on Purim that his father had died, Rav Dovid Feinstein bought the bakery for the day and ran the busy counter himself until help arrived.
Two men each claimed Rav Dovid Feinstein gave a different ruling on wearing a watch on Shabbos without an eiruv, until he explained they asked different questions.