One day his (Rebbe Wolfe’s) wife quarrelled with their servant in his presence. Seeing the two women leave for the rabbinical court, he got up, put on his Shabbat clothes and followed them there.
“Why did you take the trouble?” asked his wife, “I don’t need your help.”
“You don’t, but the servant does. You, they know; but she is a poor orphan. No one will help her, no one will plead her cause.”
Elie Wiesel
from Souls on Fire
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