NEW YORK (VINnews) — R’ Shmuel Katz used to work on the 85th floor of one of the Twin Towers. Every day he would make his way to Manhattan on the subway but was distressed by being forced to sit in the crowded rush hour trains in which many people were dressed in immodest attire. R’ Shmuel begged his supervisors to allow him to come to work two hours later daily and work later hours at the end of the day in order not to have to contend with the rush hour trains. The supervisors, seeing his industriousness and diligence, agreed to give him a special permit to arrive late.
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The permit proved to be a lifesaving device, because when the Twin Towers were blown up by terrorists on 9/11/01 (23 Elul 5761), R ‘Shmuel (as well as many other orthodox men who were saying slichos) had yet to arrive at his workplace and was therefore saved from the cataclysm which killed 2,977 people.
This week, 21 years later, R’ Shmuel Katz passed away, after having merited married off all of his children. The children told the story of their father’s special salvation and Rabbi Elimelech Biderman mentioned the story in his weekly shiur.
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