Kvittlach

לזכות רבי אפרים אבא בן מרים שושנה וכל משפחתו!!

Rav Aharon Kdosh Hashem of Belz had clear and undeniable ruach hakodesh. One of his specialities was names. When he would receive a kvittel and one of the names was not correct he would ask again and again to repeat the name until the correct name was given. Rav Shmuel Pinter Shlita, one of the elder chasidim in Bnei Brak, relates that he once handed in a kvittel with his father-in-laws name. Instaed of writing "Dovid Elimelech ben Chana", he wrote "Dovid Elimelech ben Chava". When the name was read before him, the Rebbe asked again and again that the name be repeated until he finally realized his mistake and told the Rebbe that the correct name is "Chana".

In a similar vein, a boy related to me that he went to Rebbe Elazar Abuchatzeira ztz"l Hy"d and handed him a kvittel with the name of his father, mother, brother and sister [without writing who they were] but forgot to write his own name. Rebbe Elazar looked up at him and asked "Where is your name......?"

Rav Pinter related that a certain chossid came to the Rebbe in Eretz Yisrael for  bracha for his very sick father. The gabbai did not let him enter because the Rebbe wasn't receiving people. The man was in a panic because he was worried about his father. When the Rebbe heard the tumult he asked what the problem was. The man was ushered אל הקודש פנימה to the Rebbe and handed the gabbai the kvittel. The Rebbe said "Dos kvittel vel ich alein leinen" [This kvittel I want to read myself]. It was very rare for the Rebbe to do this. He took the kvittel, read the name of the choleh and his mother and said "Es kumt zicht im ehr zol geholfen veren" [He deserves to be saved]. Indeed, saved he was and he lived another 30 years.

The family was very surprised that the Rebbe said the he "deserves to be saved". Why does he "deserve it"? It turns out that many years before back in Belz, this choleh [or his father] saw some mud on the street where Rebbe Aharon was about to walk. Rebbe Aharon was a stickler for cleanliness so this chossid threw his coat on the ground so that the Rebbe would step on it and not get dirty. The Rebbe remembered this act of chesed after many years of his own personal suffering, trials and tribulations and decreed that this person deserves to be saved.

זכות הצדיקים יעזור ויגן ויושיע!!