He said he had heard we were adding a balcony and demanded to know how we were planning to build it. He insisted we build the balcony on support pillars outside the building. Seeing no other choice, I instructed the contractor to build the balcony on pillars, even though I didn’t have a great feeling about doing it this way. After the balcony had been built, one of the neighbor’s other adult sons came to spend Shabbos with his parents. After all, my father told me so many times, you don’t lose from making shalom.