• July 12
Making the Decision
It was a tremendous zechus to know Rabbi and Mrs. Aronow. They were like parents to me. I was ...
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Reb Menachem Mendel Hacohen Aronow
Stories & Memories of Reb Menachem Mendel Hacohen Aronow
• June 28
farbrengen simchas torah
for those who remember the small gatherings by simchas torah where we made kiddush and farbrenged well before maariv. reb mendel told me that when he was a young man in crown heights the sedar was that those who could go went out on telukah. If you...
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• June 22
What happened to my parshiyos?!
He wrote my Rashi tefillin. Once I had Fleisher check the tefillin and they were good, but Fleisher told me he fixed up some letters to make the alter Rebbe ksav "l'chol ha'dayos" (as per Rabbi Landau and others hold about Alter Rebbe's ksav) ...
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• June 22
makpid on EVERYTHING
He was very makpid on EVERYTHING. If salt is a ochel, how can you walk on it?! ...
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• June 22
Reb Itche der masmid
Reb Itche der masmid was once supposed to be eating the shabbos seudah by the Frieredige Rebbe. After davening, when it was time to make kiddush, the Frieredige Rebbe didn't make kiddush because he was waiting for Reb Itche. - Rabbi Aronow said: the...
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• June 22
absolute Mashke
One by a Shabbos farbrengen there was "absolute" brand mashkeh. Someone was me'oirer that it's a shailah, because there is a shmuah that they put in milk etc. ...
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• June 20
tidbits
for tashlic years ago we went to a ravine with a creek not to far south of where people go nowadays. reb mendel had the custom of washing his hands in the creek. afterwards one of the bachurim would say chasidus by a park bench near the ravine. he...
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• June 19
He taught him by example. By his eidelkeit. By just being himself.
Around 22 years ago, someone I was involved with in becoming a Bal Teshuva married a girl from Toronto. Ever since, you grandfather became his mashpia. He took such personal care of this family, taking him completely under his wings. Needless to say,...
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• June 19
"ער האט דרך געלערנט ביי אונז, ער וועט זיין גוט, ער מוז זיין גוט, ער איז גוט"
There was once a time that the groise chassidim in Toronto were unhappy with one of the shluchim (he wasn't chassidish enough for them vekayoitze bozeh). ...
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• June 19
חיך אוכל יטעם
Reb Mendel, when he was a bochur, once went to a bris. He didn't have reshus, and Reb Nissan was there. When Reb Nissan saw him, he started to tell him off, that he doesn't have reshus etc. There was another chosid there (I think he said who, but...
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• June 19
Not even a Minute Late
Reb yisroel nevler once sent a yungerman, one of his mushpoim, to be a magid shiur in chassidus for a group of balebatim who were looking for someone to teach them. ...
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• June 19
Mesiras Nefesh For shabbos mevorchim Farbrengen
Reb Mendel would often say: ...
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• June 18
If it's against the Rebbes wishes, it doesn't exist
During the time that he was a moicher seforim, Rabbi Aronow would sell both kehot seforim and others. For the pricing on the kehot seforim, he had to go through Rabbi chodakov, kemuvan. ...
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• June 18
Professional expert.
During the last 20+ years I grew close to Reb Mendel. Every so often he would ask me halacha shaylos. I recall in particular: his feet muscles were paining him- if he on shabbos he can ice to alleviate pain; doing physiotherapy exercises on...
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