0460 - Slonimer Chossid Came to Lubavitch - R' Peretz Mochkin

00:01 Reb Peretz Mochkin once told me that when he was in Lubavitch, there was once a yungerman who came. I don't know which year this was. I know he came to Lubavitch in the year . So this was some of the years after that. A yungerman that no one knew who he was came to Lubavitch, and so was there for a few weeks for a , and he learned Chassidus with the Bochim, and he dreys off together with the Bochim, and he did everything with the Bochim. The Bochim really didn't know who he was and what's he doing there. He even taught them a Nigun, and I don't remember this moment which Nigun, but Reb Peretz Mochkin sang a Nigun that we had, that, uh, we sing, but it came from this Bo-- this yungerman that came then to Lubavitch at that time. But finally, he told them who he was, that he's a Slonimer Hasid. And his Rebbe, the Slonimer Rebbe, traveled around the world against Europe, Russia, to meet with Gedolei Yisroel. And he met with all the Gedolim, with all the Litvish Gedolim, I think, and with the Chassidish Gedolim, Chassidish Rebbes. And when he came back, he told him that there's one person that he met, that this is a real tzadik, and he was talking about the Rebbe Rashab. And I think the lotion that he said is that he w- was dressed very nicely, aristocratically, with a clock. You know, they used to have the clocks in the, in the

01:25 gilet that they had, and superficially, you can't see anything. So superficially, it looks that way, . You could see that his heart is really broken, and he's a real tzadik. And he told his Chassidim, "Look me my-- Look in my eyes," because lucky, lucky are the eyes who see the eyes of somebody who saw a tzadik, and that's the Rebbe Rashab. And then he turned around to this yungerman, and he said, "Then you go for a while to Lubavitch, that you go actually be there." So that's why this yungerman came to Lubavitch. He stayed there for a , and then he left.