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Stories & Memories of Reb Menachem Mendel Hacohen Aronow

By: Rabbi Wagner 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). They had a meeting about it, and decided to go to the Rebbe and ask him to take back the shliach. They decided, and went straight from the meeting to NY, and went into the Rebbe. Once they went inside, they got cold feet, and they were all uncomfortable to speak up to the Rebbe about what they came for, and they all stood silently. The Rebbe said to them: I heard from my shver, that even though chazal say מלה בסלע שתיקה בתרי Still, if you're quiet, you only get 2 selo' im, but if you speak, then you get a sela for every word, which will amount to much more. I think the Rebbe turned to Rabbi Aronow to speak on their behalf, so he explained the issue. The Rebbe said (about the shliach): "ער האט דרך געלערנט ביי אונז, ער וועט זיין גוט, ער מוז זיין גוט, ער איז גוט" (אינו מדוייק) During the ensuing yechidus the Rebbe spoke about some rabbonim (chassidim?) in Toronto. He said about rabbi dov Yehuda Schochet (my zeide) הרב שוחט איז א גברא רבא, און זיין רעבעצין האף מער. He also spoke about one of the chassidishe (poylishe) rabonim in Toronto, speaking very sharply against him because of the fact that he never visited the Frieredige Rebbe. When the chassidim heard how strongly the Rebbe spoke about the matter, they resolved to arrange that that tov should come to the Rebbe, and they did in fact work on it, but it never came to poiel, מטעם הידוע, ואכמ"ל.

 
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