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Sunday 29 June 2014

20th YAHRTZEIT OF THE LEV SIMCHAH

THE ARTICLE IN THE HAMODIA  " THE LEV SIMCHAH OF GER " WAS BRILLIANT.  
 I CAN READ IT AGAIN AND  AGAIN AND SEE NEW POINTS WHICH I DID NOT SEE BEFORE.
THAT WAS EXACTLY HOW THE REBBE ZT,L  WAS.
I TALKED A LOT WITH HIM BEFORE HE BECAME REBBE WHEN I WAS IN THE YESHIVA AND AFTER THAT WHEN I USED TO COME EVERY YEAR.
I CAN WRITE A BOOK ON THAT TODAY IN RETROSPECT WE SEE HOW MANY OF HIS VISIONS BECAME REALITY, INCLUDING THOSE WHO AT THE TIME DID NOT UNDERSTAND HIM AND RAISED AN EYEBROW AT HIS TAKANOS.
AS SOON AS HE BECAME REBBE THE FIRST TAKANO HE MADE WAS A SMALL NOTICE IN THE OLD BEIS HAMEDRASH.
THAT HE HAD STOPPED SMOKING YEARS AGO ( that alone is a story ) AND HE CAN NOT STAND THE SMOKE FROM THE CIGARETTES.
 HE ASKS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO THE BEIS HAMEDRASH NOT TO SMOKE UPSTAIRS IN THE BEIS HAMEDRASH.
I  WAS STANDING NEXT TO CHASSIDIM READING THE NOTICE THEY DID NOT LAUGH OPENLY.
THEY JUST MADE A COMMENT IF HE DOES NOT WANT US TO SMOKE UPSTAIRS SO WE WILL NOT.
AS IF THEY ARE DOING HIM A FAVOUR.
IN RETROSPECT NOBODY THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD BECOME A WORLD WIDE THING EVEN IN THE GOYISHE WORLD.
HE DID NOT SAY THAT SMOKING DAMAGES YOUR HEALTH.
HE JUST WROTE THAT IT AFFECTS HIM AND HE ASKS THE PEOPLE NOT TO SMOKE IN THE BEIS HAMEDRASH.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

GABY, YOU ARE MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

To anonymous if you don't have anything sensible to write then why comment?