0610 - Behavior of the Rebbe Maharash Part 2 - Going into the Forest

00:01 In that fabringen of Purim Tosaf Chofez, the Rebbe told another side of the anhagi of the behavior of the Rebbe Marash. This is what he said. There were times that the Rebbe Marash would daven in the weekdays very early, and then he would go to the forest for a tiul, for a shpatzir. And for that, there was always a wagon ready with four or six horses, with a balagola, with a driver, as it was called in Russian, the kucher, special driver for that, that he was always ready within the minute to be able to take the Rebbe Marash. So when he decided to go, he would go out and the wagon was ready, and he would take the Rebbe Marash to the forest. And after a certain amount of time, the Rebbe Marash would come back. And the balagola was told by the Rebbe Marash not to tell anybody what the purpose of his going to that forest is. But Chassidim, like they say there is, found a netze how they got him to speak. The Rebbe said, I don't know if they made him drunk or any other way, but bechol efim, midem degang adi yoden, they pressured him so much, till sof kosof he said in Russian. And the way the Rebbe said it in Russian, chudnoy chelovek, which means he's a modnes, a weird person. He has a weird behavior. And he said, what is it? He comes to the forest, sits down under a tree, starts crying. And then murachkes, ants,

01:25 milben, come all around on him. He doesn't chase him away. And he sits like that and cries till all of a sudden, all the ants run away. And he stops crying, and then he goes back to the wagon, and we come back. And then the balagola said, again, the Rebbe said it in Russian, chudnoy chelovek, shtoon patachet. I don't know exactly how to pronounce it, which means I don't know. He's a funny man, a weird person. I don't know why he's crying. And the Rebbe smiled, and he said, because what is he missing? He has a wagon with a balagola. He has a wife and children. He has two watches of gold. He has a stick with a handle of gold. And still, he leaves his palace, so to speak, and goes to this vault of this forest, sits down under a tree, allows the ants to come all around him, to jump on him, and he cries. And that's what he does every day. Kach doy dien, or something like that in Russian, he said. Another thing is I don't understand, the balagola said. All of a sudden, they all, the ants all run away. He doesn't do anything to them. And he doesn't do anything to them. He doesn't do anything. And all of a sudden, they run away. Then eventually, this got to the Rebbe Marash that the balagola told us over, and he fired him. The Rebbe said the word, as we use here, the word fired. Then the balagola came,

02:37 and he begged, and he begged, and he cried, and promised that he will never again tell anything, any secrets for the Rebbe. And they took him back. They gave him back the job. And the Rebbe saying, mentioning this, that here we see that even though he has a wagon with four to six horses that are the best horses with a special balagola, and they go every day for a tiul, if the goy wouldn't say these few words, they would think it's poshet going for a tiul to catch fresh air. But because the goy said something, it's nisbareg when they found out that he was going there, it was connected to him crying and sigufim through the ants that were biting. And the interesting thing is that when he wanted to stop, they ran away from themselves. So that means that when they did come, it wasn't because they just lost their way and they happened to come there. That means that something that was up to him. So this gives us to understand that even though on one hand the Rebbe Marash made himself look as if he's with gold and the best tachova and the biggest rich and the richest way, but the truth is this is what he did. And we wouldn't even know it if not for the goy, the balagola. So this is the other side to understand the anhogi of the Rebbe Marash.