0446 - Having a Pushka in the Delivery Room - R' Nochum Schapiro

00:01 Yud Aleph Ear, Tov Shimim Zion was on a Sunday. And that day, my brother, Nachum, was taking his wife to the hospital to have a baby. But since it was Sunday and the Rebbe was giving out dollars, so on the way to the hospital, they stopped off with a taxi in Seven Seventy and went in to get a brocha from the Rebbe. Obviously, they couldn't stand the line because they were on the way to the hospital. So they knocked on the front door, and when somebody there opened the door, they told her what's happening. So they let them in right from the front door, and they were very, very close to go over to the Rebbe. And my brother had mentioned also to Rabbi Groner, the Matzev, so he should know. When they walked over to the Rebbe, my brother said to the Rebbe that my wife is now in chevlei leido, which means labor pains. But the Rebbe said, "Ha?" So Rabbi Groner said that they're on their way to the hospital. She's going to have a baby. So the Rebbe gave him dollars, and the Rebbe gave him a lot of brochas. Amongst the brochas was there should be an easy delivery, gave him all the brochas. And then they were-- when they walked away, as soon as they walked away, the Rebbe called him back. And the Rebbe tells my brother that you should make sure that in the delivery room or in the room where she will be, there should be

01:09 a pushke, it's tzedakah box. Now, the Rebbe understood how they're gonna get this tzedakah box now to put into the room when they're on their way to the hospital. So the Rebbe turned around to Rabbi Klein, and he said to him, "You should go into the office and get there a pushke and give it to them." So he went into the office and gave them a pushke, and they took it, and they took the pushke there. And that delivery was a very, very easy delivery. It went very fast, and that-that's when their son, Menachem Mendel, was born.