A wealthy man once asked me, “Rabbi Wallerstein, should I tell you what the greatest moment of my life was?”

After years of success, public praise and respect, his mother was already very old. Before she passed away, she looked at him and said, “I’m so proud of you.”

Those were her last words.

He told me that he was honored at dinners and in ads and on plaques, but that sentence means more to him than anything else.

Tell your children you’re proud of them.

Love, real love, means telling those closest to you how you feel about them.

~ R’ Zecharia Wallerstein zt”l