0338 - Mordechai Mentlik Stopped the Bochur

00:00 Harav Mordechai Mendlik, who was from the Rosh Yeshiva in seven seventy, be-besides being a big talmid chacham, was also a real, real mekushar to the Rebbe. He was given over to the Rebbe b'lev ha'nefesh from the first moment, from right after Yuchvatov Shiniut. And it's known that he said that the reason he never went up to be there by the meals when the Rebbe ate the Yontif meals upstairs in the second floor in the Friedrich Rebbe's apartment, he never went up. People would go up because the Rebbe would sometimes say something in the middle. He never went up. And he said, "Why?" Because the Rebbe didn't sit up front. The Rebbe sat in the same place where he used to sit by the time of the Friedrich Rebbe. So the front was empty. There was a chair for the Friedrich Rebbe, and the Shad was on the right side, and the Rebbe was on the left side. And that's how the Rebbe sat all the years, as long as he ate there. Rabbi Mendlik said he wouldn't go up there because he can't be in a place where the Rebbe sits nishteit menom, the Rebbe sits not on top. But I wanna show that the hiskashrus has also an effect on the physical body, that if you really care about the Rebbe, it has effect on the physical body. What do I mean? In the Chofz, there was a bocher, not a Lubavitcher bocher, who used to dreizach around the summer of '70, but he

01:09 was nebach not well, mentally not well. And he used to say s- crazy things. He went to the Rebbe's house. That's what he told somebody. Now, we don't know if it was true, but he told somebody. He went to the Rebbe's house and rang the bell. I think it was the middle of the night or, uh, ti... I don't know exactly. And when the Rebbetsin came to the door, he was telling her that he asked Taines why the Rebbe says on the Friedrich Rebbe in the Seder End when he is the Nosi of the door. Things like that. So one farbrengen, I think it was a Yuchvat farbrengen, I'm pretty sure Yuchvat farbrengen, he came to the farbrengen, and he started pushing himself through between the people all the way from the door, going closer to the Rebbe. And no one could stop him. He was pushing himself, and no other person, and that matzah really has a special kochas. And he was pushing through, and no one could stop him. And he pushed through, he pushed through. He went further and further and further till he actually got up to the bimeh. And he pushed himself through the people on top of the bimeh till he got very close to the Rebbe. Rabbi Mendlik stood on the right side of the Rebbe. So he got close all the way to Rabbi Mendlik, and people, I don't know, somehow couldn't stop him. And the one that stopped him was Rabbi Mendlik. He stood there with

02:20 both of his hands out, and beshum eif would not let him go, and he pushed to go to... He wanted to walk over to the Rebbe. And he said later, he wanted to tell this to the Rebbe, why the Rebbe says in Seder End on the Friedrich Rebbe. But he wanted in the middle of the farbrengen, push himself to the Rebbe. And Rabbi Mendlik, with his kochas, he wasn't a gibor. Rabbi Mendlik was a Chassidishe Rebbe, and a hemke, wasn't a gibor. But he was able to-- the only one that was able to hold him back till people pushed to pull him away, and he didn't get to the Rebbe. But this shows that the hiskashrus even had an effect on his physical body. It pushed his physical strength of his body became stronger in order to protect the person from coming close to the Rebbe when he shouldn't.