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...
Read StoryWhen 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. ...
Read StoryOnce 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...
Read StoryThe following story I heard from Rabbi Mendel Aronow, z"l ...
Read StoryRabbi Aronov would get his medications from our pharmacy and would call to speak with me from time to time. ...
Read StoryDuring 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...
Read StoryDuring 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. ...
Read StoryReb Mendel would often say: ...
Read StoryReb 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. ...
Read StoryReb 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...
Read StoryThere 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). ...
Read StoryAround 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,...
Read Storyfor 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...
Read StoryOne 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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