Yonoson Rosenblum has witten an article for Mishpacha Magazine titled Zev Wolfson's Best-Kept Secret. Below are two excepts but it is worthwhile reading the article about the philanthropist who was niftar recently in its entirety.
He was just post–bar mitzvah when, fleeing their native Vilna, the family was exiled by the Soviets to Siberia. Two years later, he carried his dead father on his shoulder in order to ensure he received a Jewish burial in the frozen tundra of Kavkazakhstan, and undertook the support of his mother and younger brother.
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He had no doubt where his wealth came from. Upon being introduced to Mr. Wolfson for the first time, the chairman of Merrill Lynch asked him how he had acquired his wealth. “G-d gave it to me,” Zev replied, without hesitation. He felt no need to expand.
He not only believed that G-d had given him his wealth, but that the money belonged to G-d, and was only entrusted to him as long as he used it for G-d’s purposes.
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