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Awaiting his Coming Yearning for Moshiach carriage suddenly appeared on the horizon. The He continued, "I heard from my grandfather, 's shammes excitedly ran inside to bring that his teacher the Mezritcher Maggid Reb Yitzchok of Radvil heard so much of the him the good news: "Rebbe, he has arrived!" was able to cause even a newborn child to greatness of Reb Avrohom HaMalach, son of the experience the loftiest levels of yiras Hashem. The Rebbe jumped up from his chair, put on Maggid, that he traveled to see him. He arrived His Rebbe, the Tov, could have even his fine Shabbosdiker kapota and shtreimel and in town on erev Tisha BeAv. That night, as enthused an inanimate object. Why did they ran outside towards the approaching carriage. everyone in shul sat on the floor, reading Eicha not do so and then, with the whole world aware and mourning the churban, a bitter cry broke Seeing none other than his son-in-law stepping of Hashem's presence, Moshiach would have out. Turning around, Reb Yitzchok turned down from the carriage, he was unable to come? Because Hashem did not yet want this. around and saw Reb Avrohom HaMalach sitting bear the pain and fell to the ground in a And if the arrival of Moshiach is dependent on with his head between his knees, weeping faint. When he came to, his family heard him Hashem's will, why would the passing of our bitterly. Long after everyone had left, he moaning to himself, "Oy! It's not him… He hasn't Rebbe, my grandfather, change that? When the continued watching Reb Avrohom, who sat in yet arrived…" time comes, and Hashem wills it, Moshiach will ".surely appear )ומביא גואל ע' 127 ואילך( the same position without moving. When the )סיפו"ח זוין תורה ע' clock struck midnight, Reb Yitzchok retired for )439 the night. The following morning, when he arrived early Consider One of the chassidim of the Tzemach Tzedek to shul, he found the Malach still mourning, in ran an inn that he rented from the local poritz, Why did the chassidim feel that the midst of a puddle of tears. From time to paying him ten rubles at the beginning of every time, he would lift his head and ask in pain: Moshiach was further away year. One year the chossid fell ill and sent his son to renew the contract and pay the poritz for "He's still not here…?!" after the Alter Rebbe's ? histalkus the coming year. The son decided to ask for a )יחס טשרנוביל( How did the Tzemach Tzedek five-year contract at a cheaper rate of thirty Tzaddikim living in the time of the Yismach Moshe, answer their question? rubles, thus saving his father twenty. The poritz Reb Moshe Teitelbaum, used to say that he was was so happy to receive the advance payment What does it mean to "expect" a of Yirmiyahu HaNovi, who prophesied that he agreed. Full of excitement, the young the churban of the First Beis HaMikdosh. He Moshiach? Should everyone man returned home and told his father of the great deal he had made. would constantly cry about this lengthy golus, avoid making advance especially during the Three Weeks, and he business deals? "Fool!" the father berated him. "You paid the longed for Moshiach intensely. Whenever he extra twenty rubles for nothing! Moshiach is heard some hustle in the street, he would run coming straight away, and we'll all go to Eretz to the window: Had Moshiach arrived? Next Yisroel. So the money you've paid for the next to his bed, his best Shabbos clothing always At Any Moment four years was all wasted!" )ומביא גואל ע' lay prepared. And every night, before going to )124 sleep, he would warn his shammes to wake him Soon after the Alter Rebbe had passed away, his grandson the Tzemach Tzedek overheard a few the moment the shofar of Moshiach was heard. Reb Mordechai Yafeh, author of the Levush, chassidim lamenting the ruchniyus’dike state writes that he had always wondered: Why don't He once received a letter informing him that of affairs ever since the passing of their Rebbe on a certain date his beloved son-in-law would we read Eicha on Tisha BeAv from a megilla of and concluded, "Only Hashem knows when parchment, like Megillas Ester? He answered his be arriving for a visit. The whole household Moshiach will finally come." prepared excitedly for his arrival. The great day own question: Since we are constantly waiting came, but the visitor was nowhere to be seen. The Tzemach Tzedek entered the room they for these days of mourning to be transformed The family became restless. What could possibly were in and said, " That is the way Bilaam into days of joy and Yomim-Tovim, writing a have delayed him? The Yismach Moshe sat in his speaks: 'I see it, but not now; I behold it, but it is parchment megilla would give the impression room engrossed in his seforim while some family not near.' We, Yidden, must hope for Moshiach's that we are chas veshalom giving up hope. )לבוש סימן תקנ"ט ס"א( "!members waited outside impatiently, when a arrival every single day

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Loss on a Favor The chossid Reb Nateh was the Rov of persisted and started forcefully I was asked to deliver a package and I got a parking Malastirzineh. He was a prominent removing him from the shul. Amidst chossid of the Mitteler Rebbe and the commotion, the Maharin, Reb ticket while dropping it off. Can I bill the one who the Tzemach Tzedek, who both sent Yisroel Noach, the son of the Rebbe, requested the favor? young men to learn the ways of entered the room. When he saw the When borrowing an object, the borrower takes full responsibility Chassidus from him. He was known situation, he shouted, “What are you for the object and must repay it in full if it becomes damaged, even to be totally divested from day-to- doing?! This is Reb Nateh!” if the damage was unavoidable. What about when asking someone day ‘Olam Hazeh’. The young men knew of Reb Nateh for a favor? Are you “borrowing” the person and responsible for and were shocked and ashamed. To his wellbeing? their surprise, Reb Nateh turned to the Maharin and said, “What do Some poskim say that “borrowing” applies to a human being as Reb Nateh was a very simple and you want from them? This was the well. Thus, if the unpaid agent was arrested in the course of his humble person. When he would instruction from the Rebbe! They mission, the one who sent him is responsible to bail him out.1 visit Lubavitch, he presented himself were correct! Who am I anyway…” Other poskim disagree on this notion for one of three reasons: like a commoner. Once, Reb Nateh arrived in Lubavitch during the time 1. The sender didn’t accept responsibility for the body of the of the market. At such times, many Reb Nateh lived across the street agent. This is unlike a regular borrower who clearly takes thieves roamed the streets looking to from his brother-in-law. Once, his responsibility for the object he borrows.2 take advantage of the trade season. wife and her sister were discussing 2. The halacha is that if the borrower was being served by The Tzemach Tzedek had instructed whose husband was more of a the owner at the time of borrowing (she’eila b’baalim), he is the residents of Lubavitch not to tzaddik. Reb Nateh’s wife said that exempt for all losses. In the situation at hand, the agent is on allow any strangers to sleep in the her husband is so great that he fasts a mission for the sender, so he was serving the sender when shul. Reb Nateh just arrived and was very often. She added, “Today, the sender “borrowed” him.3 about to lay down to rest in the shul. too, he is fasting. He has not eaten The young men did not recognize all day.” Reb Nateh overheard the 3. Others point out that the loss under discussion falls into him and told him that this was not conversation. Right away, he took a the category of meisa machmas melacha, according to some allowed. piece of cake, and very conspicuously rishonim, since it happened a result of the job.4 (See issue 264 Reb Nateh pleaded with them, ate the cake in front of the window. regarding popping a tire on a borrowed car, it depends on trying to convince them that he Reb Nateh’s tziddkus was not for the understanding of meisah machmas melacha as elaborated was not a thief. The young men public knowledge. there.) This is particularly relevant to a physical injury or when arrested. In the case of a monetary loss, some poskim add that it is considered indirect damage (grama b’nizakin) for which one isn’t responsible unless he clearly accepted responsibility for such losses.5 In any case, one only takes responsibility for something which is prone to happen (e.g. a ticket) and not something totally unthinkable (e.g. a terror attack or earthquake).6 Don’t Desert the Battle In conclusion, the sender will not be responsible unless he took clear responsibility to pay in these situations.7 Many hold that A disheartened mechanech in a small whom are you leaving the flock?! town informed the Rebbe that he nonetheless, since from Hashem’s standpoint one is responsible “Even if you were to find some plans on leaving his position and for anything that happens because of him, one should therefore replacement, a truly qualified 8 move to a frum community. pay even though he isn’t obligated. substitute certainly won’t be The Rebbe penned the following available, especially since today’s reply: chinuch must defy the ‘street,’ even 1. ראה רמ"א שו"ע חו"מ סי' קע"ו סמ"ח. 5. סמ"ע שו"ע חו"מ סי' קפ"ח ס"ו סקי"א. וכך what’s considered the Orthodox 2. ט"ז שם. הסבירו שלא יהא סתירה בין שתי הסוגיות. ,As a response to a private individual“ 6. רמ"א סי' קע"ו סמ"ח. …street 3. שהיות ששאילה בבעלים חידוש אין לך the move is clearly worthy and you אלא חידושו וממילא בנדו"ד יתחייב. ראה 7. שהרי כן הכריעו הנתיבות והט"ז ובוודאי should go ahead with it. “We have repeatedly heard from נתה"מ שם וראה פת"ש. שיוכל לומר קי"ל הכי. 4. ראה נתה"מ חו"מ סי' קע"ו סק" ס' . 8. משפט שלום כאן הו"ד בס' הלכה פסוקה my father-in-law not to desert the However, as someone who has“ הלכות שותפין ע' קכ"ב בהערה. battle.” merited to successfully teach לע"נ מרת ציפא אסתר בת ר' שלום דובער ע"ה students with yiras Shamayim – with (Teshurah Avtzon, Shevat 5765)

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