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And Reb Vigdor Nevenzal said over this
maiseh,
a big
posek
in Yeshivas Eitz Chaim
and for those who don't know
Reb Vigdor was one of the
Reb Vigdor was one of the chavrusas of
Reb Zalman Auerbach for close to
40 years.
Okay? 40 years learn from Reb
Zalman.
And every day for years Reb
Zalman and Reb Vigdor would go to for a
few hours they would go to a private
house and actually they would learn.
They would learn in a private house to
make sure no one would come, no one
would bother them
and that's what they would do.
And Reb Zalman passes away, Reb
Vigdor was one of the maspidim.
And he gets up and he says a he says a
over a maiseh at the hesped.
He says there was a girl in Yerushalayim
who suffered
a terrible broken engagement
and she's very aish mensch
and she told her father, "I want to see
Reb Zalman." Her father was close
to Reb Zalman.
"Could you take me?"
The father promised to take her to Reb
Zalman.
The maiseh, I don't know what happened,
the father got very busy, it kept
getting pushed off. Finally it became
Purim, the father told his daughter,
"Come, we're going to Reb Zalman.
Let's go."
They come to Reb Zalman, they're
running late, it's Purim and they walk
into the house and see Reb Zalman
is starting the seudah, he already
washed. Ah, ah, ah, the maiseh, he
washed and Reb Zalman started the
seudah.
Reb Zalman sees his talmid, he
sees this person and the father
apologizes, "I'm shuldig, I'm sorry, see
you're in the middle of the seudah.
You know, would you be able to sit talk
to my daughter, just give her a brocha
for a shidduch?
You know, she's a lot of pain."
And the Reb says, "Sure." And as the Reb
gets up, the talmid says, "No, no, no,
no, no, no, no, I'm bringing my daughter
to you."
And Reb Zalman is adamant, "No,
I'm coming to you, we'll sit down, we'll
talk."
He says, "People by seudah
listen to me, we're going to sit down,
we're going to talk."
The maiseh, Reb Zalman comes, the
father explains the entire situation to
the Rosh Yeshiva, to Reb Zalman
and he listens carefully
and he starts to give this girl chizuk.
Reb Zalman is giving this girl
chizuk and reassurance, he says, "Don't
worry, you're going to be okay, have
confidence, you're going to be great."
And as she's listening to him,
and he says he's going to find the right
shidduch,
and the Aibishter is going to help you,
the girl was so moved by her kindness,
she starts to cry.
She got emotional. She starts choking
up.
And she buries her face in her hand,
and she's trying to think of what to
say, but she can't even speak. She's so
emotional.
And as from his arm and waits for this
girl to compose herself,
and wish to offer the Purim, and as from
his arm and walks back to his seudah, he
turns to the girl's father, he says,
"Now do you understand why I didn't want
you to come in to the seudah and I
should talk to her there?
Cuz I knew she's going to get choked up.
I knew she's going to get emotional.
And I didn't want her to be embarrassed
in front of everybody else.
That's why I made sure to come to you."
And boy, say, "That's a godol.
That's a godol be a Yisrael."
But I say that's a Yid. A Yid with
feelings.
You don't have to be a godol. Anybody
could do that, Rebbi Say.
Anybody could do that. Anyone could do
that.
That's what we have to do. That's Klal
Yisrael. We're a nation. We're supposed
to be five steps ahead. Cuz you see a
guy looks aidel, he has a big brim, and
he looks doesn't look cool, doesn't mean
he's aidel guy. Aidel means, "Oh, you're
a good person.
You talk to people in a nice way. You
connect to people. That's what Klal
Yisrael is. That's what we are. That's
what we have to do."
