0618 - After Writing to the Ohel They Decided Not to Cremate

00:01 I heard from a Yid from Antwerp a maise that happened not long ago, and he was involved. There was a Yid who passed away. His family were Goyim Nebach. He married a shiksa, Lachman HaLetzlan, and their children were Goyim, and they wanted to cremate the body. And he said that he and Reb Shabsy Slobotitsky, who's the Shliach of Antwerp, of Belgium, worked very hard for a whole week trying to convince them not to cremate the body, but to have a regular burial, and it didn't help. There were mainly two children, Goyim, who were involved, and they didn't wanna give in, and clearly not. And they worked on it very hard, he says, together a whole week. Came Friday, Reb Shabsy tells him that, "You know, we know the vort of the Rebbe, the name of the Friediker Rebbe, 'Az mir darfn ton. Uf ton tut der Rebbechte.' We have to do whatever we can. And to accomplish, that's Rebbechte's job." So he said to him, "What I'll do is I'll send a settel to the Eyl, to the Rebbe." It was Friday. "And then we did our job, and that's it. Whatever-- What more can we do?" Shabbos came. Says Motzei Shabbos, this man says he was a little bit late in shul, but there was a bar mitzvah or something, and he came home a little bit late, and his wife says to him, "Where were you? What happened? Reb Shabs, he called many, many times already." And what was it? He called that

01:23 we have to get the Chevre Kadisha ready because things changed, and they are gonna do the burial. And when it came to do the service or whatever they were going to do, which was officially going to end up with cremation, and people already were invited or whatever it is, people knew about it. So they made up that after the service, they're gonna take the body out, so people will think maybe they're going to the cremation, but really the Che-Chevre Kadisha will be standing there, and they will take the body, and they will do everything kedasha kedidin, and it'll be a regular burial. And that happened. This man says to me, he asked the two sons, "What happened? What made you change your mind?" And he says other people also heard their answer, and this is what they said. "When it came to sign the papers, somebody was standing next to us and said to us, 'Don't sign. Don't sign.' And for some reason, we accepted, and we didn't sign. And that's how it turned out that we didn't sign it, and there was no cremation." And they said, "We are happy that we decided that way." And exactly who this person was who said to them, "Don't sign," is not clear. This man says to me, "I didn't ask him. They didn't say. It looks like somebody-- It sounds like somebody they didn't even know. I don't know if that's so." And just said to them, "Don't sign, don't sign," and they didn't sign. This

02:42 was right after the settel was sent to the Eyl, and that made them change their mind because somebody was standing there and saying, "Don't sign."