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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.

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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.

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Cold Water, Hot Water, Lukewarm

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 88, no. 20

I heard this story in Lubav­itch:

A se­nior chos­sid in Lubav­itch, in the days of the Tzemach Tzedek, re­lated that he suf­fered from headaches and the Rebbe in­structed him to put cold wa­ter on his fore­head. It worked quite well; but af­ter the Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, passed away, it was no longer ef­fec­tive.

When he came to the Rebbe Ma­ha­rash, the Rebbe told him that if cold wa­ter no longer helped, he should put on hot wa­ter. His headaches dis­ap­peared.

When the Rebbe Ma­ha­rash passed away, he came to the Rebbe Rashab. “If nei­ther hot wa­ter nor cold wa­ter help, you should put on luke­warm wa­ter, ” were his in­struc­tions.

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"We — And All Who Hold On To Us — Will Remain Intact"

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 168, no. 51

It was a cheer­less time in the Rebbe’s court. The door was open and the Rebbe Rashab was walk­ing back and forth in the zal at 44 Brot­sky [in Ros­tov]. He stopped him­self and said, “I see no end to them (namely, the Bol­she­viks ). How­ever, we — and ev­ery­one hold­ing onto us — will re­main in­tact. ”

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