Tapping into R' Shayele | Rabbi Menachem Mendel Rubin

Today is ג’ אייר, the yohrzeit of my Zeyde, the רבן של ישראל, R’ Shayele Kerestirer, to whom hundreds and thousands of Yiddishe kinder feel themselves bound to him, and they’re trying to be Medabek themselves in his Avodah, to be able to get from his השפעה. What can I really, as a simple Yid, do to be Davek in R’ Shayele? I think there's a very deep עניין, that’s Shayech for every Yid in every מצב. R’ Shayele was known for his gevaldiger Ko’ach of וברך את לחמך. He had the Bracha in his food. When he still was a young boy, a young Bochur, as a Meshamesh, a servant by his great Rebbe, R’ Hershele Lisker, he was a very devoted Meshamesh, and his Rebbe admired him very much. One Shabbos afternoon, R’ Shayele was going around between the Chasidim, before Shaleshidis, and giving bilkas to everyone for Shaleshidis, like it was his Minhag and custom every week. But R’ Hershele, his Rebbe, instead of going to wash, he’s standing and staring on his Meshamesh, Shayele, and the Chasidim asked him, Rebbe, it’s late. We have to go wash. The Rebbe said: No. I’m looking on R’ Shayele, how he’s giving out the bilkas. And they asked him, He's doing this every week. What's so special this week? And the Rebbe said, You don't see? The sack is empty and Shayele’s giving out bilkas from an empty sack. This Ko’ach that R’ Shayele had, even when he was a young boy, he had it throughout his whole life. Giving bilkas from an empty sack, pouring whiskey from an empty bottle, giving soup from an empty pot, giving cake from an empty tray. People could think that this Avodah that R’ Shayele did, this is an Avodah that’s meant for Tzaddikim. It's not for me. It's not Shayech to me. But if you think deeply, you can see that Davka this is Shayech for every Yid and every day. A person gets up in the morning, has to go daven, learn, go to work, and he feels himself like an empty sack. He has no Kochos to overcome the challenges of the Nisyonos of his daily life. Then he should remind himself of the Ko’ach from R’ Shayele. R’ Shayele had the Ko’ach to take out a bilka from an empty sack. And every single Yid has the Ko’ach to be Medabek in this Midah, in this Ko’ach. Every time you feel you can't, every time you feel you don't have the Ko’ach, and you're going and you're pulling out from yourself the Ko’ach, that’s creating a bilkeleh from an empty sack, that’s Mamesh Dveikus in the Midah of R’ Shayele. You're creating your Ko’ach from emptiness. And this is going to bring you Bracha and השפעה ברוחניות ובגשמיות, and Hashem should help everyone should be zoche in the Ko’ach and the zchus from R’ Shayele to be gebentched with בני, חיי ומזוני לשובע ולא לרזון.