At the age of twenty-two (in the year 5652/1892), the budding Torah scholar [Rav Isser Zalman Meltzer] married the daughter of Reb Shraga Feivel Frank, a wealthy scholar from Kovno. He was a relative of Rav Yisrael Lipkin of Salant, father of the Mussar movement. Rav Shraga Feivel merited another great son-in-law, Rav Moshe Mordechai Epstein, Rosh Yeshiva of Slabodka. Why he merited such prestigious sons-in-law can be traced back to an incident which took place on a rainy winter day, when a fund-raiser for Yeshivas Volozhin arrived at his home. Since the fund-raiser’s shoes were muddy from the rain he decided to enter the house via the back entrance, which led through the kitchen. The righteous Reb Shraga Feivel noticed this and ordered him to enter the house through the main entrance and the opulent foyer, and that as he walked through he should sully the expensive rugs - so that Reb Shraga Feivel could show his daughters what true ‘Kavod haTorah’ is, and what is truly important in this world.
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