Rav Dovid Feinstein Runs a Bakery on Purim
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.
Incidentally, Rav Dovid ran a bakery counter once. One Purim morning, Rav Dovid stopped in a local bakery after Megillah. While he was there, the owner received terrible news via telephone that his father had passed away. Purim was understandably a busy day. Besides his own parnassah from the bakery, the community depended on him. There was still baking left to be done and orders to go out that were needed for that day. However, only gentile workers were there. He asked Rav Dovid what he should do. Rav Dovid told him that he had to stop working immediately. He advised the owner to temporarily sell him the bakery. But who should run the bakery? No problem. Rav Dovid ran the bakery counter on a busy Purim day until a replacement arrived.