0299 - Quote From R' Itche Der Masmid

00:00 My father, all of a shalom, told me that when he was a bochur, it once came out that he stayed in one room with Reb Itche the Masmid. Reb Itche the Masmid came to a certain place and he was there. So he was appointed there. He was there that he slept with him in one room. So he told me he remembers the way he sat up a whole night, didn't go to sleep, sat up a whole night to learn. And to make sure that he doesn't fall asleep, he had a bucket of cold water, a bowl of cold water, and he kept his feet in the cold water all night to keep him awake so he shouldn't fall asleep. And another thing he said, that he was there by his fabrengen, and one of the things he chazar over, just an expression that Reb Itche the Masmid said. How we know Reb Itche the Masmid would stutter. When he said a maimer, it was very clear, very smooth. But when he would talk otherwise, he would stutter. So he remembers by the fabrengen an expression that he said, I don't know the beginning or the end what it was about, but this is the expression he said. And the way he stuttered, he said, "Heistos, heistos, heistos, as, as, for, for, for neilum hazeh, ve, ve, vet meshenken tzimes nit machan." That means, that means that from this world, from neilum hazeh, it means from Gashmi, we will not make a big fuss. But the

01:12 way he said it, he says it stayed in his mind for his whole life, such an expression. Heistos, heistos, as for neilum hazeh, vet meshenken tzimes nit machan.