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"A Mayvin I Am"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 29-30, no. 2

Con­cern­ing the lev­els of ru­ach hakodesh, Reb Aizel would say: “The Al­ter Rebbe’s ru­ach hakodesh never left him for even a mo­ment; the Mit­teler Rebbe had ru­ach hakodesh when­ever he wanted — there were times when he nei­ther had it, nor wished for it. The Rebbe (the Tzemach Tzedek) has it two or three times a day. ”

Reb Aizel once told this to Reb Hil­lel [Par­itcher],3 who asked him in re­ply: “And you have ru­ach hakodesh?!”

“No, ” he an­swered.

Reb Hil­lel then said, “If you don’t have it, then how do you know?”

“A mayvin I am, ” said Reb Aizel.

  1. R. Hillel Molisov of Paritch was a leading chossid of the Mitteler Rebbe and the Tzemach Tzedek, and an outstanding oived. He served as Rav in Babroisk until the Tzemach Tzedek appointed him to travel trhoughout the agricultural settlements near Kherson and teach Chassidus. ↩
EmesSanctity of a tzaddikHumility

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Sobered in an Instant in the Rebbe's Courtyard

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 352-353, no. 53

My zeide told me that the Rebbe Ma­ha­rash knew how he spoke (af­ter a few LeChaims) of the Chas­sidus of Reb Aizel of Homil. For al­though he re­ferred to Reb Aizel as Der Hieger 30 or Der Homiler, and re­served the term “Rebbe” for the Tzemach Tzedek, nev­er­the­less — as Reb Aizel’s out­stand­ing dis­ci­ple — he had high re­gard for his Chas­sidus.

Early one sum­mer morn­ing as he walked through the Rebbe’s court­yard af­ter a late-night far­bren­gen and a gen­er­ous mea­sure of mashkeh, he looked up to see the Rebbe Ma­ha­rash stand­ing by the win­dow.

“Mordechai Yoel, come here, ” the Rebbe said, and be­gan talk­ing with him.

When the con­ver­sa­tion reached the topic of Reb Aizel’s Chas­sidus, my zeide said (with a ni­gun), “The Rebbe doesn’t need it, nor do the Rebbe’s chil­dren need it. But the Rebbe’s grand­chil­dren and reg­u­lar chas­sidim 30 "The lo­cal one. "

should learn Reb Aizel’s Chas­sidus. ” Con­clud­ing his words he glanced up­ward and there, in the sec­ond win­dow, saw the Tzemach Tzedek. “I was sober in an in­stant, ” my zeide re­counted, “and fled. ”

Sanctity of a tzaddikHafatzas HamaayanosHiskashrus

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Reb Hillel Paritcher: Learn Tanya With Small Children

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 329-330, no. 19

My zeide re­lated the story of a far­bren­gen with Reb Hil­lel Par­itcher in Ret­z­itza:

“Baalei ba­tim,” Reb Hil­lel said, “I have some­thing to re­quest from you: your chil­dren must study with proper teach­ers. You have no idea of the strength they im­part to the chil­dren. ”

Af­ter­wards Reb Hil­lel con­tin­ued, “Learn Tanya with small chil­dren; the re­sult will be that they never be­come apiko­r­sim.”

Hafatzas HamaayanosEmunahLeadership

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