0028 - R' Teitelbaum Rebbe is Tzadik

00:02 In that shiva, that the Rebbe said shiva and the different rabbonim came. So I remember Rabbi Teitelbaum, that's the father of Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Teitelbaum of Miami, of Eli Teitelbaum. He was a very, very choshev haRav. He was a big talmid chacham. So I remember he came, and I was inside when he came, he sat down. And the Rebbe said to him, "Nu, der oval dabdoch peysey achzein." The oval has to be the one to start. So Rabbi Teitelbaum says to the Rebbe, "Dos in nor ba stama eiden, stama menschen. Aber ba tzadik is andesh. Ba tzadik zain dem menachem dem aveilim." He says, "By a tzadik, it's different. The ones that come to comfort, to be menachem, they're the aveilim." What he really meant was it says in Rambam that mashal when a kein godol, the-- when you come to menachem oval a kein godol, really it's considered he sits and everyone goes... It's different that he's considered the, the, the menachem and everyone else is called aveilim. Anyway, this is what he meant, but he told the Rebbe these words. He said, "Dos is all ba stama menschen. Aber ba tzadik is andesh. Ba tzadik zain dem menachem dem aveilim." So the Rebbe says to him, "Ha?" So he repeats it again. "A tzadik is andesh. Ba a tzadik dem menachem zain dem aveilim." So the Rebbe says to him, "Ha?" And he repeats it a third time. And the Rebbe said, "Ha? Amadema des gebleben." The Rebbe, like, didn't want to acknowledge,

01:23 didn't say-- just like as if he didn't hear what he said because he was saying something to the Rebbe that you are a tzadik. So the Rebbe like said, "Ha?" That was it. Then they started talking about other things.