0384 - R' Meir Dubrovsky Growing a Beard Part 6

00:00 In one of my earlier voice notes, I told a story that the Rebbe made a condition before he was in Tzadik Dushan by the chasaneh of Reb Yisroel Springer, who married my cousin, the daughter of my uncle, Reb Meir Dubrawski Vilenkin, that Meir should grow a beard. And he started growing a beard, and when he went into the yichidis before the chasaneh, his beard grew in already a little bit. And the Rebbe told him, "I hope you're not upset that I wanted you to grow a beard." So he answered the Rebbe, "The Rebbe heyst folg ich. The Rebbe said, so I listen." So the Rebbe said, "I'm telling you to do it. The Shulchan Aruch tells you to do it. It means the Halakha tells you to do it." So I heard from his son, my cousin, Reb Yisroel Yitzchak Vilenkin or Dubrawski, because they use both names, that he told me that the Achdush of Pesach after that, at Koshel Brocha, the Rebbe gave my uncle a piece of matzah, which was unusual that by Koshel Brocha the Rebbe should give a piece of matzah. And the Rebbe said to him, "Thank you for the Nachas Ruach, Nachas that you're giving me." So here we see how important it was by the Rebbe that people should grow a beard. And when somebody didn't grow, and it was for a reason that he thought that he's not deserving, whatever the reason was that he thought, but when he grew the beard, the Rebbe said, gave

01:23 him a special piece of matzah by the Koshel Brocha, Achdush of Pesach, and he said,