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Stories & Memories of Reb Menachem Mendel Hacohen Aronow

By: Rabbi Wagner 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. Once, he called Rabbi Chodakov to complain: "How can I justify selling the Alter Rebbe's shulchan aruch, which is 4 volumes, for 7 dollars, when a set of chumash beis Yehuda, which is 5 volumes, they could get for only 6 dollars?!" "What kind of question is that?" Rabbi Chodakov retorted, "ess iz doch der Alter Rebbe's shulchan aruch!" "But the chumash is Moshe rabenu's chumash" Rabbi Aronow countered. He tried another point: Now, there is another group that printed their own edition of the Alter Rebbe's shulchan aruch. If we charge more than they do, then why should anyone buy from us, they could buy from them for less?" "That printing?" Rabbi Chodakov exclaimed, that we don't have to worry about, because they printed it illegally, without our permission, iz ess nit do!" (That edition doesn't exist).

 
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