Rav Yitzchak Zilbershtein shlita related the following story that he heard first hand about a Jewish family that immigrated to Israel from Iran. None of the children had a religious upbringing, but one of the daughters adopted a religious lifestyle. She was scrupulous with every detail of the yiddishkeit that she practiced. When their mother passed away there was no one to recite Kaddish on her behalf.

At the conclusion of the first year following her death, the mother appeared to her religious daughter in a dream and told her that “I have no rest here in the afterlife, the World of Truth!” The daughter understood through various circumstances that her mother could not find respite for her soul because there was no one who would recite the Kaddish for her. She immediately hired a young scholar from a nearby academy to recite Kaddish and study Mishnayos on her mother’s behalf. (The study of Mishnayos is especially appropriate to raise a soul to greater spiritual levels in the next world since the Hebrew word Mishna; Mem, Shin, Nun, Hai has the same letters as the word Neshama; Nun, Shin, Mem, Hai.)

Thirty days following this, her mother appeared to her once again in a dream and told her, “You have now put my mind at ease.”

(Tuvcha Yabi’u, Vol. 1, Parshas Yisro)

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