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Parshas Behar–Bechukosai

A Kiddush While the Doctors Despaired

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 486-488, no. 7

Continued from the biography of R. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar:

Im­me­di­ately af­ter his ar­rival in Toronto from Ger­many, his small daugh­ter who had been born in the Ger­man D.P . Camp be­came sick. Her con­di­tion steadily wors­ened, un­til the doc­tors lost hope that she could re­cover. In his pain, R. Eliyahu wrote to the Rebbe re­gard­ing her ill­ness and re­quested a bracha for her com­plete and speedy re­cov­ery. The Rebbe re­sponded that on the up­com­ing Shab­bos he should pre­pare a com­mu­nal kid­dush at shul. R. Eliyahu did as he was in­structed and spon­sored a kid­dush for the com­mu­nity. His daugh­ter was in a des­per­ate sit­u­a­tion and he was cel­e­brat­ing a joy­ous event. The com­mu­nity rov ques­tioned him in as­ton­ish­ment, “What’s with you, Eliyahu, have you lost your mind?! Your daugh­ter is in such a crit­i­cal con­di­tion, and you’re mak­ing a kid­dush?”

Shortly there­after, the state of her health be­gan to im­prove, un­til she re­cov­ered com­pletely.

BitachonSimchaHiskashrus

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"I Cannot Do Other Than What My Rebbe Says"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 30, no. 3

When my zeide de­scribed how Reb Aizel would be­come ex­cited about the Al­ter Rebbe, it was awe­some: “He was the lofti­est of men — higher even than Adam HaR­is­hon be­fore the sin. ”

Reb Aizel would say, “If Moshe Rabbeinu came by with the Rebbe, and the Rebbe said, Do this, and Moshe Rabbeinu said, Do that; I would say, ‘ You can do what­ever you wish; but there is no way I’ll do any­thing other than what my Rebbe says. ’”

(Re­gard­ing this story the Rebbe wrote to me: As in the story of Rabbeinu Tam and Moshe Rabbeinu, in Seder HaDoros, Sec­tion 1, 49304.)

HiskashrusKabbolas OlSanctity of a tzaddik

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"We Will Do It Faster"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 265-266, no. 105

The Yid­den in Kos­trama told the Rebbe that a tzad­dik was there for seven years. “We will do it faster, ” he replied.

BitachonLeadershipGeulah

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Become Proficient in Tanya

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 280, no. 126

Then, too, on motzaei Yom Kip­pur, 5688, when Menashe (may G-d avenge his blood) — my dear friend, the tomim Menashe, the son of Binyamin Al­thoiz - cleared the dishes from the ta­ble, the Rebbe told him, “ …But you should be­come pro­fi­cient in Tanya.”

Menashe ful­filled the Rebbe’s words and achieved an ex­per­tise in Tanya.

Kabbolas OlHiskashrusTemimus (sincerity)

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