Monday, January 7, 2013

Time to cry


One Yom Kippur, during the piyut describing the asoroh harugei malchus, the Rebbe Rashab observed the chosid R’ Leib Mosenson smiling. The Rebbe Rashab called him over and asked: “Why are you smiling, this is a time to cry?” The chosid responded that someone did something amusing in the shul (I guess these things happened then as well . .) and so he smiled. The chosid grabbed the opportunity, and asked the Rebbe: ‘what reason is there to cry now?’
The Rebbe Rashab answered him: “There are 2 reasons: 1) Upon contemplating their great mesirus nefesh. 2) About the fact that kelipah was able to overcome kedusha to such a degree”.
[The story (in the sefer nitzutzei or – Weingarten) concludes: The chosid related that once he saw the Rebbe Rashab observing R’ Mendel Chein during asara harugei malchus, while he (R’ Mendel) was crying heavily. A number of years later the same R’ Mendel Chein was killed al kiddush Hashem].

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