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Stories from As I Heard Them (Lesheima Ozen) by Reb Zalman Duchman · © The Duchman Family; please share this sheet as printed
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Stories for the week
Parshas Vayeitzei"This Time I Will Thank Hashem" — Michoel Dvorkin on Careful SpeechAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 414, no. 51 At a Shabbos Kiddush on the 11 th of Elul, 5696 (1936), I carried on at great length about recognizing and having gratitude for G-d’s kindness. “Zalman, ” the chossid Michoel Dvorkin told me, “the Torah states that when Leah said, This time, I will thank Hashem…she stopped bearing.”48 These were the instructions of a venerable chossid on how careful one must be when speaking.
The Agunah Pushed Into the StreetAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 306-307, no. 41 The second story: When an agunah came to the Tzemach Tzedek in Lubavitch to ask about her husband, the Rebbe sent her to Reb Aizel in Homil. “How should I know where your husband is?” he asked. She stayed in Homil for several weeks, came to Reb Aizel every day, and wept. Reb Aizel would send her away. One day she came as usual, but stood her ground. Reb Aizel began to drive her away — but she wouldn’t budge. Now Reb Aizel had a meshares, Mottel Gabeitzik (I still remember him: he delivered meat to people’s homes; a Yid with long untrimmed peyos) — and Reb Aizel began shoving Mottel, and Mottel started shoving the woman until he succeeded in pushing her through all the rooms and into the street (the Kiev-Petersburg highway, which ran through Homil). And at that exact moment a wagon carrying her husband passed by. She screamed, the wagon halted — and a settlement was concluded. Tell Me What You Don't Want to SayAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 385, no. 9 I heard the story in Lubavitch that a yungerman opened his heart to the Rebbe Maharash. “Yungerman,” the Rebbe said to him, “tell me what you don’t want to say. ” (And as the chassidim added the words, “You cannot hide from me!”) The Rebbe Rashab |