0153 - Frierdiker Rebbe Did Not Want to Leave his Mother

00:01 Rabbi Lieberman, the Rov of Machzikai Das in Antwerp, told me that when he was in Chicago, he was told by a person that that person was one of the people in the delegation that came to the Friedrich Rebbe in Tofshim Beis from Chicago. They traveled special to the Friedrich Rebbe to invite him to come to visit Chicago. And when they went to Yechidas and they told the Rebbe, the Friedrich Rebbe, what they're there for and they want to invite him to come to Chicago, the Friedrich Rebbe answered that he doesn't think he could go because how could he leave his mother? How could a son leave his mother? So this person says, when the Rebbe said that, he thinking in his mind, the Rebbe himself is not healthy. So what could he do to help his mother if he himself is sick? And the Friedrich Rebbe felt his machshava and he said to him, a kranker zoon can ech helfen the mame. A sick child could also help his mother. The Pe'il Mamesh, the Friedrich Rebbe, listened to them and he takke traveled to Chicago. There's the famous Bikur Chicago from Tofshim Beis. And takke at that time while he was there, that's when his mother had passed away. But chatchilah he said to them that he doesn't want to leave her because how could he leave his mother?