Gedalia Goomber is great!

i don't work on Saturday either
but no one ever offered me triple pay...

and sometimes i feel like a hippopotomous
from my top to my bottomous

i am clean and sober today
Thank you Hashem for that

today is the yartzeit of the Lechovitcher Rebbe Reb Mordechai zy'a
he said:
The world is such a beautiful place for someone who is not sunken in it's indulgences
and such a dismal place for someone who is sunk in it

In one shtetl where there was a shteeble of Lechovitcher chassidim, the local butcher was caught selling treife meat as kosher.

Since the butcher -although he was no chassid - used to daven in the Lechovitcher Shteeble -and in general at that time in that area the Hisnagdus to Chassidus was rampant and rabid -the misnagdim used this as an excuse to persecute the Chassidim in general as Mechallelei Shem Shamayim R"L. Guilt by association. So the chassidim felt forced to disassociate with the guilty, and banished the butcher from their midst, denying him entry to the shteeble.

A little while after these events, one of the Lechovitcher chassidim from this shtetl traveled to Lechovitch to R' Mordechai. R' Mordechai inquired as to the welfare of each of his chassidim who resided in the town, and the chassid filled him in as to the happenings of each and every one. But when R' Mordechai asked him about the butcher, he tried to change the topic.

When R' Mordechai asked him again and got the same non-response, he thought that perhaps the butcher had passed away, and asked the chassid, "Ploini the butcher leibt nuch?".

"Yes, said the chassid.

"Nu, Voos macht er?"

And so, the chassid had no choice, so he told the Rebbe what had happened, and that the chassidim couldn't take the heat and ridicule aimed at them in light of the fact that the butcher frequented the shteeble and so they banned him from the shteeble.

"And who", asked the Lechovitcher, "gave them permission to do so? I am appointing you a personal messenger to the Gabboim and dignitaries of the shteeble, and you will tell them that I demand that they immediately approach the butcher and do whatever it takes to return him to the shteeble as a member in good standing!"

And so, upon receipt of the Rebbe's directive, the most respected chassidim and the Gabboim of the shteeble went to the disgraced butcher, and requested that he begin once again to daven in their midst.

The rationale behind this was obvious: Staying in the shteeble, meant a good chance that the butcher might do teshuvah sheleimah; whereas throwing him out afforded an even better chance that he would entirely leave Yiddishkeit.

Sefer 'Mizkenim Esbonan'

Zechiso Yugein Uleini

any relation to chaim yankel?

No, Chaim Yankel only does road kill butchery -and so did all of his ancestors going back 5 doiros. So his schoirah is treif l'chatchilah.

Besides, he's a Galitzianer -Lechovitcher chassidim were in Lita!

You ever heard of a Litvishe Chaim Yankel or Moshe Yoisef?

An I don't mean today's Amerikkaner Litvak's, 97% of those are gevorrener....

yupp in litta it was YAINKEFF CHAIM

actually on a serious note

one of last
remaining gedoilay litta

HAGAON HATZADDIK REC CHAIM YAAKOV BEN CHASYA MIRIAM LIRFUA SHILAIMA

REB CHAIM STIEN SHLITTA

I didn't know that he was a Chaim Yankev!

Refeeah Sheleima!

err ken dee klaineh oisiyos

soios fin chaider

err is goor goor groise

shkoyach for the gevaldige story reb EBD

and shkoyach rebbe b for mentioning one of the ziknei roshei yeshiva, lirefua shleimah bekarov

and btw, during WWII Rav Chaim Stein was in Samarkand in southern Russia together with Reb Levi Yitzchok Bender zt'l, one of the ziknei chasidei Breslov after the war

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 18 Jan 2011 21:41:


Check out an even better (IMHO) story here http://www.guardyoureyes.org/forum/index.php?topic=3419.0

EBD, my humble opinion agrees with your humble opinion

thanks very much!

ZemirosShabbos wrote on 19 Jan 2011 15:39:


So in the days of the Lechovitcher when someone got KD'd they told him KOD.  Keep On Donkeying.

b"h i am clean and mostly sober today
very grateful to the RBSO for that and for everything else in my life
i feel very fortunate to have GYE and the very special people here, you have helped me so much and show me how to live, how to keep growing, how to get over myself and try to do something for another

Zemmy

How did they taitch
"Mostly" in chaider??

B

When some said "er ken k'maaseh".    The response was, "K'maase iz nisht gut. K'maaseh eretz mitzraim lo saaseh!"