0093 - R' Zalman Vileinkin Part 4

00:01 Another interesting thing that my Zayda told me, that he remembers when they had to transfer the body of Rebbe Rav Wolf from one cemetery to, uh, to another, and he was standing there when the Rebbe's father, Rebbe Levi Yitzchok, was the one that was in charge in taking care. We know that before the Rebbe's father, Rebbe Rav Wolf Kazavnikov, I think that was his name, was the Rov in Katerinoslav. He was from the big Hasidim of the Tzemach Tzedek. Actually, he called himself the golem of the Tzemach Tzedek, or the golem of the Rebbe, because he used to stutter a lot, but he got a brocha from the Tzemach Tzedek, and from then on, whenever he would chaz a Hasidus, he wouldn't stutter at all. So he called himself the golem of the Tzemach Tzedek. He was a geheiv in Eretz from the big Hasidim. After him, he passed away in the year tov reish samaches, 1908. So a few years later, then they appointed the Rebbe's father instead. He became the Rov there and for the Hasidim, et cetera, et cetera. So my Zayda told me that he remembers that this was about twenty-five years, it seems, after the petira of Rebbe Rav Wolf, and the government wanted to make the cemetery into a park or something like that, and they decided that they're gonna transfer the bodies of the two Rabbonim. Rebbe Rav Wolf was a Hasidish Rov, then they had another Rov who was the Litvish Rov that was there from before,

01:20 also buried there. And those two people, they're gonna transfer into the other cemetery. And when they did that, my Zayda was there, and Rebbe Rav Wolf-- the Rebbe, the Rebbe's father, Rebbe Levi Yitzchok, was in charge, and he was taking care and telling him exactly what to do. And he said, my Zayda told me he was standing there when they took out the body of Rebbe Rav Wolf from the grave, which was about twenty-five years after he passed away, and everything was complete exactly as it was when they buried him. He said that there were older people, old people, who remembered the levaya of Rebbe Rav Wolf, said it's exactly the way they put him in. The whole body was intact. And my Zayda told me these words. Beshas the Rebbe's father saw that, these are the words he said, "Hot ez ich a goz gig ton mitren." He started, tears started coming down his eyes seeing this. And then when they took out the other Rov, it was like regular, like by regular people that, you know, the body decays to a certain degree. I don't know exactly what. But by Rebbe Rav Wolf, everything was exactly as the way they put it in. And he said he saw it himself.