ere overnight being anxious to return to Haifa the same day for the Friday eve services, and wishing also to visit the same day the Northern part of Palestine the Moshav or village of Metulla, we rose very early and started out. En route, Julius expressed the desire to visit at the Shrine of Reb Meyer Ball Haness, or Reb Meyer the Miracle worker. Reaching the Shrine, we tried though it was still dark to look into the inner chamber. By pushing the gate the chain from inside loosened so that we were able to push our way in. Julius lit a match and we observed a copper basin filled with oil and some cotton little candles swimming in the oil. We lit all these tiny cotton candles, and Julius asked us to empty our pockets of all silver coins and placed same at the edge of the basin. Our chaffuer, the well known Kopel Rosenberg, contributed the largest amount of the silver coins. We pulled the chain and closed the gates and left the shrine lighted up. We imagined how the sexton would feel when he opened the place later that morning and found it glowing with light and the silver coins, intended for him of course. We were sure that he would say: Well during this night a real Miracle happened at the Shrine of Reb Meyer Baal Haness.
Attending the services at the Beth Sefer Realli in Haifa, where my three children attended classes, Julius and his brother Sam had a real treat, for they met at the services Meyer Dingot, who was their teacher at the Public School in Boiberke. When we met him he was teaching English at the Beth Sefer Realli. Naturally they were all delighted to meet after an absence of a quarter of a century.
We all sent a delightful evening a Dingot's house, where he and the guests exchanged reminiscences. The following day Dingot related how when the war broke out in 1914, he was still teaching in Boiberke; later he was drafted into the Austrian army, was captured by the Russians, and after the war found himself in Harbin, Manchuria.
At first he thought of returning to Boiberke, but he soon realized that it was no longer part of Austria, since Poland became a sovereign state. But at the same time the press brought the news that Great Britain was to get the Mandate over Palestine, and he was hesitating between Palestine and America. He wrote to New York to his Bolechover landsman Bernard Semel to send him papers and passage money. However just as the began to fill out his papers for America, something snapped in him and he decided then and there to go to Palestine.
He had no trouble adjusting and having learned English while in Harbin, he secured a position as a teacher of that language. The Beth Sefer Realli, a high school in Haifa where Dr. A. Biram was Director, was Dingot's home for more than thirth-five years.
His wife who was much more Pole than even he was, at first was reluctant to go to Palestine, once she got there she became one of the most ardent lovers of Eretz Israel.
Later, when he received his Doctorate, Dingot, who was never interested while in Boiberke in anything that smacked of the Jewish religion, became a pious Jew. He lived a ripe old age. When he passed away while still teaching, he left as a legacy to the State of Israel his only son, who is a successful and able physician in Israel.
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