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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — Bechukotai 5784

Выпуск: Timely Stories - Y.Tilles — Bechukotai 5784. Темы: не определены автоматически. It would be a pity, he thought, to be so far from home and not to utilize this opportunity to visit one of the towering figures of the generation, the Rebbe Rebbe Elimelech of Lyzhinsk, In order to be able to do this in a clear and focused frame of mind, he first settled his various business affairs in the district, and arranged to be back in town for Shabbos. Nor did his departure from Lyzhinsk lighten his burden, for when he came to Rebbe Elimelech to receive his parting blessings, he was told: "When you come home, please tell your rebbe in my name that he should not be so conceited." His arrival home threw him into a quandary. A sinner such as himself, thought Rabbi Aharon Leib, would certainly not be granted admission to the Friday night table of the tzadik, so he asked his wife to go out to the market place to buy a bottle of wine and two loaves of challah, while he himself went off to find the local mikveh, so that he could immerse himself for purity's sake in honor of the holy day. When they returned without having found him, Rebbe Elimelech stood up and protested: "A guest of the stature of Rabbi Aharon Leib is here with us in town; will I not have him at my table for Shabbos?!" He again gave the order that his chasidim were to search through the whole of Lyzhinsk, from house to house, room by room, until they found this same Rabbi Aharon Leib, and to inform him that he himself would not sit down to conduct his Friday night tish (‘table’ opened to the public after they first finished their own meal) until his guest joined him there. 'When you eat of the labor of your hands, happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you." (Psalms 128:2) "And the same lesson we learn in the Talmud: 'The Torah truly becomes the possession only of him who gives his very life in the effort of its study.' For this reason I have not been taught by him, not will I be taught by him. I will only pray to the Almighty that He give me the strength to toil always in the study of his Torah." The tzadik gave him his blessing, and Rabbi Aharon Leib made his way back to Premishlan, where he continued to serve his Maker by an honest day's labor, day by day. Rebbe Elimelech of Lyzhinsk [5477 - 21 Adar 5547 (1717 - March 1787)], was (along with his brother, Reb Zusha) a major disciple of the Maggi

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Timely Stories - Y.Tilles

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