4/12/07

Let us recount the tales of the Tzadikim and may their light shine upon us


"I Heard this story from the Rebbe Reb Mendel of Vorke. His father Reb Yitzchak of Vorke once spent Shabbos with the Rizhiner Rebbe. The custom of the heilege Rizhiner was that during the tish he would enter an intense state of Dvekus and there was to be absolute silence in the room. Nobody was allowed to make any noise. This time there a man in the room who was nebach suffering from the coughing disease (probably bronchitis or tuberculosis), and he started coughing. All the Chassidim began screaming at him for disturbing their Rebbe’s dvekus. He tried to stop but he couldn’t control his cough. But then the Rizhiner himself shouted, 'Stop coughing!' So he mustered all his strength to hold back cough until he started choking.
The Vorker Rebbe was sitting right next to the Rizhiner. So he leaned over and whispered,
'Have some Rachmunis on the guy, he can’t stop himself, it’s mamash a situation of pikuach nefesh.'
'That’s why I told him to stop coughing,' replied the Rizhiner.
And on that day the man became totally healthy."
(The photo is of Reb Dovid Moshe of Chortkov the son of the Rizhiner Rebbe.Pretty chilin' shtriemel he's got there, huh?)

1 comment:

Li'get said...

Yasher Koach-
I think the Boyaner Rebbe Shlita has the same shtrimel