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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 119-120, no. 4
In the summer of 5675 (1915), lodging in Pinsk with R. Yisroel Yitzchak Lubinsky, the narrator heard this from him. The Rebbe Maharash would always say that a matter should be heard as it seems and answered as it seems — in a general manner. When the authorities in Semyanovka, Chernigov province, discovered untaxed alcohol being taken from the factory, a major trial was set for thirteen defendants with R. Yisroel Yitzchak as a witness, and the well-known investigator Stalietov was coming from Petersburg; R. Yisroel Yitzchak went to the Rebbe Maharash in Lubavitch and, because many Yidden faced prison, asked the Rebbe to hear out his prepared answers, ending with one question he did not know how to answer. The Rebbe told him that he is a Yid with a good head who is not sunk in physical desires, while Stalietov is a goy without such a mind and caught up in desires, so it would never occur to him to ask such questions — and so it was: the trial ended favorably.
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488 wordsRebbe Maharash
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 199-200, no. 3
The Frierdiker Rebbe related that at a rabbinical conference in Petersburg, R. Chaim Brisker told him about his father R. Yosef Ber. A wealthy Brisk contractor, who worked to free Jewish prisoners, challenged the rov for spending his time learning seemingly irrelevant laws with the two greatest scholars of the town, 'Beryl the Hump' and the 'Klutz.' R. Yosef Ber answered that his learning with them is what keeps a chain of study alive down through the town — Gemara in one beis midrash, Mishnayos in another, householders who come daily, weekly, or only on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur — down to the pharmacist's son who fasts and comes to shul; without it, the pharmacist's son would still fast but would not come to shul. When the Frierdiker Rebbe repeated this to his father, the Rebbe Rashab called it an avodah from above to below.
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542 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 302-303, no. 35
The zeide related Reb Aizel's own account of how he became a chossid of the Alter Rebbe: whenever the Alter Rebbe heard of a promising young scholar he would send a shliach to draw him close to Chassidus, and such a shliach came to Homil after Sukkos and brought Reb Aizel to Liozna. Returning home for Pesach, Reb Aizel established a minyan davening nusach Chabad, but his father R. Mordechai — who spent much time in Leipzig and kept his distance from chassidim — returned shortly before Pesach and forbade him, on the grounds of honoring one's father, from davening there. At the seder, hearing his son's brilliant expositions on the Haggadah, R. Mordechai understood that Chassidus had not harmed him, permitted him to return to the minyan the next morning, joined the minyan himself for the rest of Pesach, and by Shavuos traveled with Reb Aizel to Liozna.
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423 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 492-494, no. 14
A member of Anash phoned R. Eliyahu's house asking Mrs. Lipskar to host a family arriving in Toronto with nowhere to stay; things were difficult for her then and she did not answer at once, but when the husband himself called the next day from the road, travelling with his wife and small baby, she gave him her address and prepared her home. After they had rested she asked about their origins, and the guest, whose family name meant nothing to her, said his grandfather was Yisroel Konson of Leningrad and Tashkent — the R. Yisroel Konson who had risked his health to help her and her husband when they hovered between life and death. She was left speechless, and all who heard of the meeting were astounded by the Divine providence; the Lipskars then attended to the family's every need and offered them loans to buy a home in Toronto, so she was finally able to repay a debt that had weighed on her for years.
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427 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 79-80, no. 6
The Alter Rebbe asked the Tzemach Tzedek where his dowry money was; told it had been given to a wealthy man in Vitebsk to invest, he asked whether the Tzemach Tzedek would take it back and place it in the chest of contributions for the Rabbi Meir Baal HaNess fund. The Tzemach Tzedek remained silent, and shortly afterward the wealthy man went bankrupt and the money was lost. When the Tzemach Tzedek's wife came in tears to her grandfather, the Alter Rebbe said, "Should my own children not listen to me?" — and told how the Maggid had once sent him and a companion on a mission, where a Jew living fifty verst from the nearest town, hearing them wonder aloud how a Jew could never hear Borchu or Kedushah, had his wagons loaded to move to town before they had even finished davenen, once he learned they were the Rebbe's students.
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403 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 307-308, no. 42
The zeide related that when Reb Aizel passed away, one man who was not among his students wept uncontrollably. Asked why, he explained that in his youth he had set out to commit a transgression, and Reb Aizel, walking behind him after davening in the Lubavitcher shul, shouted twice, 'Where are you going!? Go to shul and recite some Tehillim!' He said Reb Aizel had saved his life, and asked how he could not cry over such a tzaddik. Reb Aizel used to tell him, 'You have mazel,' and the zeide revealed the man's identity only after he passed away.
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337 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 488-489, no. 9
In Toronto the Rebbe encouraged R. Eliyahu to devote himself to education, and he took a position in a Talmud Torah. Friends repeatedly pressed him toward lucrative business ventures — some who entered them became millionaires — but the Rebbe answered him: being so qualified in education, is this why you had mesiras nefesh in Russia and endured everything to reach Canada, to become a businessman? He stayed in chinuch al pi taharas hakodesh for life, never arriving late once in thirty-six years, was honored at an Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah dinner attended by five hundred people, founded the first Chabad institution in Toronto with R. Yosef Assulski funding a shul and mikva, and served two decades as a spiritual guide in Gan Yisroel camp.
2 min to tellexcellent to tell
325 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 255-256, no. 94
A note written by the Rebbe was found on the high table in his room after his arrest on Wednesday, 15 Sivan 5687 (1927) in Leningrad, and was later printed in Kuntres Yud-Beis Tammuz 5708. R. Pinchas, son of R. Eliyahu Chaim [Althoiz], kept the note hidden in Leningrad and would take it out, together with two letters the Rebbe wrote on Yud-Beis Tammuz, at the farbrengen held in his home every Yud-Beis Tammuz, and they would be read aloud. In the note the Rebbe instructs that in every chassidishe shul the daily portion of Tehillim be said with a minyan after Shacharis, including Shabbos, followed by Kaddish, and that shopkeepers and businessmen come to daven and to the Ein Yaakov class, promising Hashem's help with abundant livelihood. He tells chassidim to say that he instructs them, and other Yidden that out of Ahavas Yisroel and their well-being he begs them, closing with a blessing for a good year in ruchnius and gashmius and the complete Redemption through Moshiach.
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502 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 368-369, no. 4
R. Yitzchak Masmid related that in a small town lived an eminent chossid, R. Itchele. A wealthy man whose daughter had fallen ill gave him money for a pidyon nefesh — and instead the chossid gathered his chassidim for a festive seudah and farbrengen. Challenged by the gvir, he explained that Itchele fasting and weeping is nothing new before G-d, but when Itchele gathers his chassidim and farbrengs, Heaven asks what the occasion is and discovers that the gvir's daughter is ill — which he applied to the verse "And He looked upon their distress when He heard their rejoicing."
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287 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 429-430, no. 21
R. Zalman's poverty was dreadful -- when Chaya Grunya pointed out that their chairs were so battered it was an embarrassment to have them around, he could only suggest moving them to a room where they would not be seen -- yet he never hesitated to bring guests home, and his tiny apartment had a partition set up to make a sleeping area for them. Every Shabbos after davening he brought home the most unfortunate individuals; when his wife wondered whether there were any normal guests needing a meal, he explained that by the time he finished davening the shul was empty and only these people remained. One day a Yid came needing a place to stay, and R. Zalman gave him his own "private quarters" while the family crowded into the other cordoned area; in the middle of the night loud moaning was heard from behind the curtain and R. Zalman watched over him the whole night. The family later realized the man suffered from epilepsy and that R. Zalman had placed him apart so as to spare embarrassment, and his children took on the same extraordinary kindness -- sharing their food with guests and giving away their own beds while they slept on the floor in a corner.
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280 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 195-196, no. 91
R. Yisroel Neveler related in the name of the gvir R. Nosson Gurary that R. Nosson traveled with the Rebbe Rashab to the Alter Rebbe's ohel in Haditch, where both gvirim and melamdim were to enter yechidus. The Rebbe instructed that the melamdim be admitted first and the gvirim afterwards, but R. Nosson reversed the order and told the gvirim to leave their contributions on the table. At the train station the Rebbe asked R. Nosson whether he had money for the tickets; when R. Nosson, who knew the gvirim had left money, was astonished, the Rebbe explained that since the melamdim came in afterwards there was money on hand, and he gave them whatever was in his pocket.
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277 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 486-488, no. 8
Some time later the rov's two-year-old daughter was badly burned by scalding water, and though the Rebbe gave a bracha for a complete recovery, her father was disappointed not to be told to make a kiddush as R. Eliyahu had been. Days afterward Rabbi Hadakov conveyed in the Rebbe's name that he should arrange a kiddush in the girl's merit, which he did for that Shabbos. On Motzaei Shabbos her condition collapsed and the doctors gave her hours to live; the Rebbe told them to go to the hospital and make a shturem about the incorrect medicine, and since the rov was reserved by nature, R. Eliyahu went in his place. The doctors discovered that medicine prescribed to be sprinkled on her burns was instead being given to her to drink; once administered correctly, she recovered completely.
2 min to tellexcellent to tell
271 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 262, no. 101
The Rebbe's mother, Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah, and his wife, Rebbetzin Nechama Dinah, wearing white silk scarves, accompanied the Rebbe to the train station. From the coach window the Rebbe told his mother that it is true that "Hashem our G-d will be with us, as He was with our forefathers," and it will surely be, "Let Him not leave us, nor forsake us." Then, turning to those standing there, he said, "Ah, such an unnecessary trip. Nu, you'll probably say Yevarechecha."
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217 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 459-460, no. 68
After Rebbetzin Chana passed away, the Rebbe asked R. Zalman and his son Yisroel to watch over the Rebbetzin's home and possessions. R. Zalman organized a minyan to daven at her gravesite on the day of the hakamas hamatzeiva, and on her shloshim again arranged a car of chassidim to visit the gravesite and recite the special chapters of Tehillim; when he notified the Rebbe, the Rebbe thanked him deeply. In a heartfelt letter afterward R. Zalman reported what he had said at a gathering -- that the Rebbe's father, and near him in Gan Eden his brother R. Leib, and his mother are together, as the Zohar says that the women have 'their chambers' -- adding that he had thought this was written in parshas Naso but could not find it there, and that the Rebbe's mother had told him secret matters, how the Rebbe was born from a bracha of the Rebbe Rashab. In the margin the Rebbe noted the sources in Zohar and asked R. Zalman to please write whatever he had heard from Rebbetzin Chana.
2 min to tellgood to tell
213 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 306-307, no. 41
An agunah came to the Tzemach Tzedek in Lubavitch to ask about her missing husband, and the Rebbe sent her to Reb Aizel in Homil, who said he had no way of knowing where her husband was. She stayed in Homil for weeks, coming daily and weeping while Reb Aizel sent her away, until one day she refused to budge. Reb Aizel began shoving his meshares Mottel Gabeitzik, who in turn shoved the woman through all the rooms and out into the street — the Kiev-Petersburg highway that ran past the house — at the exact moment a wagon carrying her husband was passing. She screamed, the wagon halted, and a settlement was concluded.
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391 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 475-476, no. 20
In 5723 (1962), when R. Yisroel Duchman was earning very little, he served as a chazan in a nearby shul for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, earning around $300, which he set aside to buy the family a washing machine. That year an uncle came from Eretz Yisroel for a bracha to marry off his three older daughters; in yechidus the Rebbe told him that if he grew a beard he would find good shidduchim for them, but the uncle, clean shaven and ten years older than his wife, was certain she would not agree. Knowing that their aunt badly wanted a leather coat the couple could not afford, the Duchmans gave away all the money saved for their much-needed washing machine so the uncle could buy it for her. He began to grow his beard, and within a few months all three daughters found good shidduchim.
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216 wordsR. Yisroel Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 101-102, no. 41
R. Groinem the mashpia recounted that an agunah with a mute son of eight or nine came to the Tzemach Tzedek in Lubavitch and persistently pressed him to tell her where her husband was. Once she had the boy tug at the edge of the Rebbe's garment, and the Rebbe told him, "Tell your mother that your father is returning soon" — which the child did. When the Tzemach Tzedek was told what had happened, he answered, "I didn't know that the boy was mute."
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188 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 447-449, no. 49
Leaving the shul after Mincha, the Rebbe stopped to speak with Reb Zalman Duchman about the Frierdiker Rebbe's wedding and sheva brachos, noting that R. Zalman was now in the same period of celebration for his son. The Rebbe related that the Frierdiker Rebbe's wedding took place on 13 Elul 5657 (1897) — his father the Rebbe Rashab's had been on 11 Elul 5635 (1875) — and that on that Sunday the Frierdiker Rebbe was summoned for army service; his face was blackened so he would look older, and he was sent home, the festivities continuing apart from the coloring on the chosson's face. The Rebbe then told how the Rebbe Maharash had gone to the provincial governor to demand the Rebbe Rashab's release, warning that if the governor would not rescind the call he would go to Moscow himself and the governor would pay a steep price; the governor refused and sent a second notice, the Rebbe Maharash resolved the matter in Moscow, and meanwhile the governor fell gravely ill and died after much suffering. On Sunday, 15 Elul, while Reb Yisroel Duchman celebrated his wedding in distant Paris, his parents merited to go into yechidus and receive a special bracha for the wedding.
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306 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 483-484, no. 3
Drafted into the Red Army in the Second World War and wounded at the front, R. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar was permitted to leave besieged Leningrad for medical treatment and to take one person with him; the lot fell on Rochel, daughter of Schneur Zalman Duchman, who was knowledgeable in medical matters. After great difficulties they reached Tashkent, where they married. Conditions there were desperate — people starving in the streets and sickness raging — and Rochel contracted typhus; R. Eliyahu, caring for her when she was alone without family, caught it as well, and both became critical. A chossid in Tashkent, R. Yisroel Konson, cooked porridge for them and brought it to the hospital, leaving it on the windowsill when he was refused entry because of the contagion, and so sustained them and saved them from certain death.
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288 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 491-492, no. 13
A family of twelve, chassidim of the Skulener Rebbe, arrived in Toronto; the father fell gravely ill and died, leaving a widow with ten young children. R. Eliyahu collected a large sum for them and established an official fund to support each member of the family, and as each child reached marriageable age he found a spouse, arranged everything the couple needed, and married off all ten as if they were of illustrious status, worrying for them as though they were his own children. After R. Eliyahu's passing, the Skulener Rebbe came to the shiva — arriving in Toronto at 3 A.M. after an airplane delay and asking the family to receive him at that hour — to thank them for the kindness shown to his chassidim.
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282 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 102-103, no. 42
R. Mordechai Yoel related that women would travel to the Viledniker Rebbe while men went to Lubavitch, but after the Viledniker's passing everyone — including many agunos — came to the Tzemach Tzedek, who performed open miracles. His children challenged him for performing miracles "as they do in Poland." He answered that it required nothing more than a good memory: he had advised each young man where to travel for a livelihood, so when a wife later came searching for her vanished husband, he remembered where he had sent him.
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274 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 101, no. 40
Chassidim relate that a question came before the Tzemach Tzedek regarding a woman accused of adultery, and he inclined toward ruling her forbidden to her husband. She traveled to the tzaddik R. Mordechai of Chernobyl, who said he saw no sign of the transgression on her face. The Tzemach Tzedek then wrote that perhaps the abundance of her tears had erased the sin from her face. A parenthetical note records that the Rebbe wrote, on 13 Elul 5709, that he had heard the halachic deliberation in this matter was with the Tzemach Tzedek's brother-in-law, R. Yaakov Yisroel of Cherkass, son of R. Mordechai of Chernobyl.
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246 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 340-341, no. 39
While R. Yitzchak was living in Baba, a village near Sosnitza, he chose the narrator's zeide as a son-in-law. On one visit a gentile village woman who knew his wife Rochel greeted the zeide with a hug and the words "Ay, Rochel's husband!"; he fled and wanted nothing but a divorce. The Tzemach Tzedek held that Reb Aizel, the zeide's teacher, should order him not to divorce, but Reb Aizel answered that the Rebbe of the generation was the one whose place it was to give orders. R. Yitzchak traveled back and forth over the matter, once slamming Reb Aizel's door in Homil and being asked "Itche, why are you slamming doors?!", and he suffered from malaria for a year; in the end the Tzemach Tzedek ordered the zeide to make peace, and the zeide's firstborn son was named after Reb Aizel.
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390 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 475-476, no. 19
R. Yisroel Duchman's care for others extended to those close at hand: he organized collections that enabled countless young brides and grooms to set up their homes, and recipients could feel that he was genuinely glad to be helping them. Giving was a natural, ongoing part of his life, in the spirit of the chassidic adage that "the piece of bread that I have is yours just as much as it is mine." All year round his Shabbos table was surrounded by guests from all over the world, an effort in which his wife Rochel was his tireless partner, and for which he showed her the utmost appreciation and respect.
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152 wordsR. Yisroel Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 89, no. 21
A Jew from the village of Pokolovitch came to the Tzemach Tzedek and complained that he suffered because his wife ruled over him. The Tzemach Tzedek answered that the Torah says "and your desire will be for your husband" and then "and he will rule over you" — but when the first part is reversed, the second part is reversed as well.
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117 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 136-137, no. 8
Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah related that when she came from Avrutch to Lubavitch to become the Rebbe Maharash's daughter-in-law, she noticed that all the children of the household were tall while she herself was short. Her father-in-law told her not to be troubled by it, since we see that low trees produce good fruit.
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111 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 252, no. 90
Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah related that when the Rebbe Rashab spoke with her about shidduchim for the grandchildren, he said, "Nu, that one is for Chana; and for Musya (Chaya Mushka), I think, one of Leivik's children." She added, "How he thought about everything!"
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93 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 425-426, no. 14
R. Leima Minkowitz of Nevel, a respected chossid whose wife Chaya Mina ran their successful business so he could daven and study, agreed to the match between his daughter Chaya Grunya and R. Zalman, and the wedding was set for Homil. On the day of travel the Minkowitz family boarded the train in the crowded station without checking that everyone was aboard, and only after it pulled out did they realize the kallah had been left on the platform, running after the accelerating train; R. Leima demanded so authoritatively that the conductors stop the train that they did, and Chaya Grunya boarded. Though Homil was still ravaged by famine and typhus, the wedding was held on erev Shabbos with great joy and the festivities continued for days, and on Shavuos 5681 the couple was blessed with a daughter, Beila Rochel.
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299 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 195, no. 90
The Rebbe Rashab spoke to the narrator's brother-in-law, R. Yitzchak Minkowitz, shortly after his wedding. He told him that being an ehrlicher Yid while still a yeshivah bochur is no great feat; remaining an ehrlicher Yid once one is a married yungerman is the real accomplishment.
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75 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 368, no. 3
The Mezritcher Maggid's disciples approached his second wife and persuaded her to demand her conjugal rights, hoping another son on the level of R. Avraham "the Malach" would be born, and she agreed. When the Maggid entered the room she was seized with terror and cried out that she waived her rights. The Maggid remarked that his first wife had heard no more than the door opening as he came in and closing as he left — so removed was she from materiality.
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219 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 104-105, no. 46
After her passing, the Tzemach Tzedek was deeply broken and had no desire to say Chassidus or to conduct yechidus. To his children he said that they had had a mother here and now have a mother in Gan Eden, but that for him she is missing. Chassidim explained that since she was Malchus of Atzilus, it was through her that he had a connection to the worlds of Beriah, Yetzirah and Assiah.
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146 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 230, no. 48
The Rebbetzin also related an episode about a shidduch proposed for a Tomchei Temimim student, in which she gave one opinion and her son, the Rebbe, held differently. Afterward she remarked, "It seems to me that 'the wife of a Torah scholar is comparable to a Torah scholar' — nonetheless, it passed over to him, and he does better (macht besser)."
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130 wordsRebbe Rayatz
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 447-449, no. 48
On Shabbos Parshas Ki Teitzei, a week after arriving in New York, Reb Zalman Duchman led Shacharis and Mincha with great joy in anticipation of his son Yisroel's wedding, which was to take place the next day in faraway Paris. A chossid's diary records the atmosphere in 770 that Shabbos: after the farbrengen, R. Yochanan Gordon, the gabbai of 770, told the Rebbe that since Reb Zalman had made kiddush and was in high spirits he davened Mincha so joyously. The Rebbe replied, "Shacharis was also very joyous!"
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113 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 104, no. 45
The narrator's zeide was present when Rebbetzin Chaya Mussia passed away. After the burial was completed, the Tzemach Tzedek said, "Chaya, go to Heaven and say: However much Torah came out from your belly, it is still not enough."
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80 wordsTzemach Tzedek
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 191, no. 84
The narrator relates that in yechidus the Rebbe spoke with him about how the ohr klali shines on the day of one's chuppah, and about the preparations a person must make in order to receive such a light.
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72 wordsRebbe Rashab
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 468-469, no. 2
When the Leningrad siege broke, the Duchman family fled to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where a chassidic community was flourishing, and after the war they escaped Russia on false Polish passports. They lived for the next few years, with thousands of other refugees, in the displaced persons camp in Poking, Germany. Yisroel then left his family to study in the Tomchei Temimim yeshivah in Brunoy, France under the mashpia R. Nissan Nemenov, and in 5710 he became engaged to Rochel Rubashkin, daughter of R. Getzel and Rosa, marrying her on the 15th of Elul.
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110 wordsR. Yisroel Duchman
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