• June 17
R' Hillel Paritcher
Following is a story i heard from R’ Mendel Aronow): ...
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Reb Menachem Mendel Hacohen Aronow
Stories & Memories of Reb Menachem Mendel Hacohen Aronow
• June 17
Pesach medications
Rabbi Aronov would get his medications from our pharmacy and would call to speak with me from time to time. ...
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• June 17
He is very much alive
The following story I heard from Rabbi Mendel Aronow, z"l ...
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• June 17
א רבי איז אן עצמי
Once there was a farbrengen in Toronto, and during the farbrengen, Reb Mendel said that a Rebbe is an עצמי. My grandfather, Rabbi Schochet was there, and he was scandalized by this statement that he felt was bordering on kefirah (and perhaps not...
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• June 17
The son must take over the father
When the old Rabbi Felder passed away, his son (yaakov) was young (maybe a young schnuk), and the kehila was not inclined to have the son take him over. ...
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• June 17
An Oxford English
Once, in shiur gimmel mesivta, we were learning Likutei Torah with R' Mendel Aronow. He sat there teaching us, slowly going through each line with great detail and thoroughness, as he read, he came across the word "Tzimtzum' and translated it as...
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• June 17
Dedicated to the Rebbe's mivtzoim
I once ran out of matza late on mivtzoim. It was the Friday before pesach vacation and this was the last opportunity for me to give it out. I quickly took a cab back to yeshiva, only to find out that they were out too. They suggested I run across the...
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• June 17
''מיין קאפ איז גוט פאר אלע קעפ''
I once bought a pair of to filling by Rabbi Aronov for mivtzoim. when it came time to measure the size of the של ראש, he measured it with his own head saying, ''מיין קאפ איז גוט פאר אלע קעפ''
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• June 17
Story he told from a chossid Slavin:
Why don't they feed soldiers well, and let them sleep a lot. It is an order to train them that when they have to fight they should be dedicated with kabolas ol. The same applies to bochurim and Chassidim.
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• June 17
Caring for me as a bochur
Haircut coupon It was once a few days before I would be going home for vacation. And rabbi aronow saw me that I had long hair, and needed a haircut. He gave me a coupon to get a free haircut at the barber across the street from yeshiva!
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• June 17
Toivel Bashemen Ragloi
At a farbrengen, Rabbi Aronow z”l said the following story. When he was a young bochur, he was part of a group of bochurim running for their lives across the continent. Their ultimate goal was Samarkand, in Uzbekistan. During their travels, they...
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• June 17
He was not just a soldier ,but a general.
Anyone growing up in Toronto in the past 50 years will only have the best memories of Reb Mendel! His modest home on Fairholme was the place to go for Sefarim ,Tefillin, Mezuzos,Arbah minim and Matzohs. ...
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• June 17
The Sirtuk
when my father got married in 5706 in Pocking, Reb Mendel Aronow OBM arranged for Him a Sirtuk, which my father wore for many many years, until he was once climbing on something and them it tore, his wife Tried sewing it but was unable to fix it so...
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• June 17
Understanding the Rebbes Approach
There was once a bochur who was depressed (as bochurim sometimes are...). I tried to speak to him, but didn't get anywhere. I told the bochur to write to the Rebbe, which he did. He opened an igros, and there was a letter from the Rebbe telling him...
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• June 17
מגדיל ישועות מלכו ועושה חסד למשיחו לדוד ולזרעו עד עולם
By a farbrengen once the pesukim for the Rebbe (at the end of shmoneh esreh) came up. The Rebbe wrote that his pesukim are ...
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• June 17
''אויף דו''
Reb Zalman Moshe and Reb Dovid Horodoker were farbrenging together. In the middle, RZM asked RDH "Dovid, tell me the truth, do you have ahava veyirah? ...
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• June 16
2 small storys
1) When I needed tefillin for my boys' bar mitzvahs he took so much time and care with each one. Being in his little office i felt transported to another time and place. He was truly great and will be surely missed by all whose lives he touched. ...
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• June 16
"I work for them"
Zaidy once asked me to help organize his collection of kfar chabad magazines. ...
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