When going on a fundraising trip to America, Rav Beinush Finkel, the father-in-law of the late Rosh Yeshivah of the Mir Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel would always pay for his airplane ticket, in addition any other expenses that was used for his own personal use. No one understood how he was able to afford this, because he never took a paycheck from the Yeshiva, not when he was a maggid shuir, not when he was Rosh Yeshiva, and he supported his sons-in-law to the fullest, in addition to the numerous unfortunate people who crossed his path. One time during his years as maggid shuir, his father who was the Rosh Yeshivah at the time, Hagoan Rav Lazer Yudel Finkel, son of Rav Nosson Tzvi Finkel, the Alter of Slodbaka, approached Rav Beinush his son, and handed a plane ticket, he said, “this time the yeshiva, pay for it. A month later, Rav Lazer Yudel approached Rav Beinush and said, “you think I didn’t notice you replaced all the money for the plane ticket in the Yeshivah’s account”?
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