June 4, 1967

During the course of Shavuoth night, my three youngest sons (nearly 12, 9 and 7) were in a Torah class with a rabbi who recalled that "44 years ago, Hebron yeshiva emptied out on Shavuoth morning. Everyone went to the Kotel [Western Wall]." We live about an hour's walk from the Kotel, but this morning - as I have done every year except for two since we made aliya - I took two of my sons (the 12