Rabbi Moshe Feller 70 years (kein ein horoh)! Mazal Tov! May he continue being matzliach in fulfilling his shlichus!!

When Faith Trumped Baseball The day Sandy Koufax refused to pitch and made major headlines. Rabbi Moshe Feller recalls that day back in 1965

Using good-old fashioned chutzpah, a young Minnesota rabbi walked up to the desk clerk at the grand St. Paul Hotel and asked to see Sandy Koufax. The Dodger lefty was baseball's best pitcher and just hours away from taking the mound at Met Stadium for Game 2 of the 1965 World Series against the Twins. He was limbering up in his hotel room after declining to pitch Game 1 the day before because it fell on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the most sacred of Jewish holidays. That ultimate athletic expression of faith 40 years ago has become - and remains today - a hallmark source of Jewish pride, making the not-so-religious Koufax a reluctant hero. But his act of faith forever identified the '65 Series as the one where faith and principle transcended the national pastime. Rabbi Moshe Feller, director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Upper Midwest at age 28, felt divinely inspired to try to see Koufax that Thursday in October 1965 so he could personally thank him for what he had done the day before. "I figured I'm going to go down there - I said a little prayer - and I'm going to ask to see him," the rabbi remembered with clarity 40 years later. The desk clerk "probably figured I'm his rabbi. He gave me his number, so I called him up." For the rest of the story please click here