I was thinking of continuing writing some additional aspects and thoughts which I mentioned or heard at a Gimmel Tammuz farbrengen. However, someone related to me the following story he personally heard twenty-eight years ago from Chacham Lasry a nephew of the Baba Sali. It is Chacham Lasry's personal story of an interaction he merited to have with the Frierdiker Rebbe.
So, I decided to post that story and as always, your comments and feedback are greatly appreciated and most welcomed.
In 5556 (1996) my parents took the family to Eretz Yisroel to participate in the bar mitzvah of a close relative. Once we were there, we all went to Chacham Lasry, to receive a few brochos.
My mother requested a brocha for another child, and his first reply was, “Why are you asking me, when you already requested this brocha from a tzaddik who is much greater than me! Yes indeed, my mother had asked our Rebbe some years earlier for this brocha.
He continued and said, “I can understand your feelings as I was not blessed with a child for some/many years after I married.”
So I will relate to you something personal. One day while I was learning in my house, that was while we were living in Morocco, I suddenly felt the presence of someone else in the room. However, after looking around and seeing no one, I thought I must have made a mistake. But I could not shake off that feeling.
Suddenly, the person addressed me and said, "I am Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn. You will be blessed with two sons. Reserve my name for one of them.1
He then turned to my grandfather and said, why are you here when the Lubavitcher Rebbe specifically instructed you not to come to Eretz Yisroel, unless it is a real necessity. He then instructed him to say a specific tefila at the kosel.2
My mother then asked him for a brocha for me, as I had an infection that the doctor’s couldn’t heal, and by the time I returned to America, it was completely healed.
Rabbi Avtzon is a veteran mechanech and the author of numerous books on the Rebbeim and their chassidim. He is available to farbreng in your community and can be contacted at avtzonbooks@gmail.com
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