Shalom Sweeeeetest friends!!!
I could not resist sending you a story about the Rebbe of my revered Rebbe Shlita, May we all grow in our emunas tzadikim and our connection to them.
This dvar Torah is dedicated to HaRav Ariel ben Shlomit and R' Ephraim Abba ben Miriam Shoshana who are two models of people who are devoted to getting close to tzadikim which quite frankly makes them no small tzadikim themselves. May they and their families have only good things always:-).
The Pnei Menachem, Rav Pinchas Menachem Alter, the previous Gerrer Rebbe was niftar motzoei Shushan Purim 18 years ago. Mori Vi-rabi Shlita was extremely close to him and often tells amazing stories that he witnessed first-hand. He passed away suddenly but gave many hints that he was about to go to the world of truth. One hint he gave was what he said at the tisch on the day before his passing. He spoke about how the hidden Esther alludes to the neshamos of tzadikim and like Queen Esther they too are given whatever they ask for. He continued by saying that the death of tzadikim is a kapara and a tzadik takes the souls of the wicked out of gehenom. A true tzadik asks for nothing just as Esther asked for nothing when preparing to meet the king.
There was a certain Jew who had tremendous tzaros in the realm of health, parnassa and the chinuch of his children. His friends told him that he should go in on Purim to the Pnei Menachem to ask for a yeshua. He came in on Purim with a broken heart and handed the Rebbe ztz"l a kvittel detailing his many tzaros. After the Rebbe read the kvittel he looked at him and asked "On Purim" as if to say "Why are you bringing me such tzaros on Purim?"
The man broke out into hysterical crying and explained that his friends told him to go see the Rebbe and to ask for a yeshua on Purim which is the day that כל הפושט יד נותנים לו - Anyone who stretches out his hand is given. This applies not only to the poor asking from the rich but to whatever we ask of Hashem. The Rebbe ztz"l said "In aza groise tog darf men alein davenen" - On such a great day a person must daven on his own and told him to place the kvittel on the grave of his father, the holy Imrei Emes, Rav Avraham Mordechai of Gur.
My Rebbe Shlita related that after Purim he traveled with the Pnei Menachem to a certain place and he related to the Rebbe Shlita what had happened. He asked if the Rebbe Shlita believes that Hashem can do anything and the He is able to help this unfortunate man who is in an impossible situation.
The Rebbe Shlita answered that he believes that Hashem can help. The Pnei Menachem said "Well then this person has already been saved because of the powerful tfilla he davened with a broken heart on Purim."
When the Rebbe Shlita returned home, this person called him up and told him that he had miraculously found a source of parnaasa and that a sick person in his family had suddenly, unexpectedly recovered. All of this happened during the conversation between the Pnei Menachem and the Rebbe Shlita.....
We should all be zocheh that Hashem should give every one of us his or her personal salvation in the areas where we lack and suffer.
[The Tolna Rebbe Shlita Melave Malka Parshas Tzav 5768]
