0144 - Selling Chometz to R' Shmuel Levitin

00:01 One year when the Rebbe sold his chametz the day before Erev Pesach and Reb Shmuel Witten was the Rav, so he went into the Rebbe's room and they did everything they had to do and Mechiras Chametz. And when he finished, he, Shmuel walked out of the room and went back to his room. A few moments later, the Rebbe walked out from his room with a fifty dollar bill in his hands, and he saw Reb Meir Halik standing there. And he says to Reb Meir Halik, "Vu iz Reb Shmuel?" So Reb Meir says, "Ez vi gaingen in zayn tzimmer." He went to his room. And then Reb Meir says to the Rebbe, "Zoll ich im gein rufen?" Should I go and call him now here? So the Rebbe says to him, "Vi fall dir ein tsum matriach zayner elteren Rav?" How do you even have a thought of causing the trouble to an older Rav? "Ich vill alein gein." I'll go to him. And the Rebbe walked to Reb Shmuel's room, knocked on the door, and Reb Shmuel opened, the Rebbe walked in, and the Rebbe gave him the fifty dollars and says, "Hoy ika shakhachti." In other words, the Rebbe, so to speak, forgot to pay him the money that you usually pay a Rav for Mechiras Chametz. So he went himself to the room. But the nekuda that the Rebbe told him, how do you even think of being matriach an older Rav that I should have him come here? And the Rebbe himself

01:12 went to him.