59. Reb Eliezer Lipa The Water Carrier

00:16 Hello, Kindala. Here is a beautiful, beautiful story that the Rebbe Rashab told to his son, the previous Rebbe, when he was a child. It's a story about a man, his name was Reb Eliezer Lipa. Reb Eliezer Lipa, when he was born, his mother died right after he was born, and his father died when he was one year old. So now, Eliezer Lipa was a baby, only one year old, didn't have no mother and no father, so his uncle, Reb Avraham Leib, uh, decided to raise him. He took him-- he took the baby into the house and raised him like his own child. But the uncle, Reb Avraham Leib, was very busy with his business and never hired a teacher for Eliezer Lipa. So Eliezer Lipa grew up without knowing anything. Didn't know how to learn. He barely, barely knew how to read Hebrew, and he didn't understand the words, but he could read a little bit. But he was a very, very, very big yerei shamayim. You know what a yerei shamayim is? Somebody who's very, very close to Hashem. He always wants to do mitzvahs, wants to do the right thing. He had fear of Hashem, always afraid of Hashem, wants to do the right thing for Hashem. Then Eliezer Lipa got older and older. He got a job. He worked a little bit. He didn't know how to learn, could only read Hebrew, but didn't understand the words. It was time for him to get married. Somebody found him a girl who was

02:12 also an orphan. She didn't have no father, no mother. She grew up in the house of the Rav of the town. So they got married. Eliezer Lipa didn't have a father and a mother and a kallah. The girl he married also didn't have a father or mother. But the community got together, and they made a wedding for them, and they got married. After Eliezer Lipa got married, he realized he needs to have a parnasah. Parnasah means to have an income. He has to work to make money so he can feed his family. Soon he's gonna have children. He's gonna have to bring money into the house, so they can buy food and get a house. But he didn't wanna go into business selling and buying, so he decided to do some hard work, 'cause he learned once. He once heard a Rav teaching a class, a shiur in the shul, where he was saying that Hashem loves it when people work hard to make a living, they work hard to earn money. So he decided to become a water carrier. First, he started building, helping people build houses. He'd build, uh, ovens. Some people had a, maybe had a, a work they, they used to build ovens for people. Some people would chop wood. Some people would have firewood to keep the house warm. In the end, he became a water carrier. What he would do, he would go to the river outside the town every day on a wagon, with a wagon and a

03:46 big barrel. He'd fill up the water, uh, the barrel full of water, and would schlepp the wagon into town and go from house to house. Whoever needed water for the house, he would ge- sell them a little bit of water. People need water to wash their dishes. They need water to cook with the water, to make coffee, to make tea, to cook food, to cook vegetables. They need water to take a bath, to wash their hands, their feet. So he would... They didn't have water in the houses. So in th- those years, people didn't have, like we have today, a sink where you open up the faucet, or you open up the shower and there's water. They didn't have that. If you wanted to have water, you had to go to the river, but not everybody had time to go to the river. So the water carrier, that was his job. He would bring water from the river, and he would sell it to the people in the houses, and that's how he would make money, and then he could feed his family, and that's what Eliezer Lipa used to do. Ten years went by after Eliezer Lipa was married, and their first child was born. They gave him the name Elimelech, because the father of Eliezer Lipa, his name was Elimelech, so he gave him a name after his father. After five years, five years later, the second son was born, and they called him Meshulam Zusia. This is because the mother, the wife

05:17 of Eliezer Lipa, her father, his name was Meshulam Zusia. Now they had two children, Elimelech and Meshulam Zusia. Elimelech and Meshulam Zusia were very weak kids. They weren't strong, and also they weren't very smart, very intelligent. They couldn't understand much. Their parents hired the best teachers, the best teachers in town. They sent them to cheder, and the best cheders, chadorim, in town. But the children couldn't learn. They weren't smart. They weren't able to understand what the teachers were telling them. Reb Eliezer Lipa and his wife were so upset that their children couldn't learn anything. They were-- Their heart was so pained. They had such pain in their heart knowing that their two children are so ignorant. They don't know anything. They learn and learn and learn with their teachers, but they're not getting it. They're not understanding anything. Reb Leizer Leip was so upset because, you know, Reb Leizer, Reb, Reb Leizer Leip's father was Reb Limelach, olive Hashem. You know, remember, he passed away when Reb Leizer Leip was only one year old. But he was told by other people who knew his father that he was a big Goan, a big Talmud hakham. And her father, the mother of the two boys, the wife of Reb Leizer Leip, her father, his name was Meshulam Zusya. She heard from the Rav in the town who knew her father that he was a big tzadik and a big Goan. And now these two boys were the grandchildren of these two great Goanim and tzadikim will

07:06 remain very ignorant, not knowing anything because they don't have the, the mind. They don't have the sechel to understand what the rabbi is teaching. They were very upset, very sad. So Reb Leizer Leip decided to say some Tehillim, daven to Hashem with tears in his eyes, crying to Hashem to please help and make his children more smart, more intelligent, so they can understand the Torah that the rebbes are teaching them. His wife who couldn't read at all, she didn't even know how to read Hebrew. She would just repeat. She would listen to her husband saying the words of Tehillim, and she would repeat every word after him and also cry, "Hashem, please help my children. They should understand Torah." You know what they used to do? In order to ask Hashem so hard to please help their children, they should become Talmidi Hakhamim. They should understand the Torah. They would sometimes fast. They would not eat supper, not eat breakfast and lunch. Nothing. They wouldn't eat the whole day. And they would take the food of their lunch and of their supper and give it away to poor people who are hungry instead. So they would starve, they would fast, and give their own meals away to the poor. And they would hope that in that tzedakah that they gave away their own meals to other poor people, Hashem would bless them and help their children understand Torah. The mother of the two boys, the wife of Reb Leizer Leip, she would bake challahs every

08:45 Friday, and she would bring the challahs to poor people. She would light two candles in the shul every Friday before Shabbos, and she would daven when she lit those candles that Hashem should open up the heart and the minds of her two children, so they would understand the holy Torah. Years went by, and the children get a little older and older, and the teachers are still saying, "We're sorry. We're so sorry. Your children just don't understand anything. They don't understand anything. Hashem didn't give them enough sechel to understand the Torah. They barely know how to read now." And Reb Leizer Leip and his wife, the parents of these two boys, were crying every day to Hashem, saying Tehillim. Once, Leizer Leip was walking through the marketplace. He was carrying his wagon and a big barrel of water that he had brought from the river that he was gonna sell in the different houses. Suddenly, he sees a crowd of people in the marketplace, and there is this... A guest, somebody which is not from this town. Nobody knew who he was. He was visiting. He looked like a poor man, but he was talking with great excitement, and everybody's gathered around him. And he went up closer. Leizer Leip wanted to hear what this man is saying because everybody's listening so curiously. They wanted to hear what he's saying, so he tried to listen, too. So he pushed in to hear what the man is saying. He heard that the man was talking about how

10:31 Hashem loves simple Jews, Jews that don't know much how to learn, but they still serve Hashem with great love of Hashem. They love Hashem with all their heart, even though they don't know much. And they serve Hashem with all their heart and soul. And he told them a story. This guest, this poor guest, was talking to a lot of people, a lot of people around him listening, and he's telling them a story that's written in the Gemara, in the Midrash. There was once a story with a rich man in the time of the Beis Hamikdash. This rich man had a lot of animals, a lot of houses. He wanted to bring a very beautiful Korban as a present to the Beis Hamikdash, to bring it up to the Mizbeach in the Beis Hamikdash. So he took a very fat, big ox, like a bull, the fattest animal that he had, big and fat. He's gonna bring hi- this animal to the Beis Hamikdash as a beautiful present for Hashem. He wants to bring with a Korban to Hashem. On the way, the man is taking his bull, his ox. He tries to make it walk and walk and walk, but he's in Yerush-- He's already in Yerushalayim. Now he has to take and make sure that the bull walks all the way up to the Beis Hamikdash, but the bull refuses to walk. He stops. Maybe the bull knew that he's gonna go to the Beis Hamikdash, and the Kohanim are gonna shecht him and

12:10 put him on the Mizbeach. He didn't wanna go. He stopped. The ox didn't wanna walk, and you know an ox is very big. He can be very big, and this ox was really big. Fat and big. You can't pull him. He's much stronger. He's very strong. So the rich man tried to pull and pull and pull, and then whip the ox, "Come on, you gotta go. You gotta walk to the Beis Hamikdash." He didn't want. And everybody's watching, "What are we gonna do? We can't pull this bull. He doesn't wanna go to the Beis Hamikdash. He's stopping in the middle of the street and doesn't move." A poor man was walking by, who was very poor. He was on his way home. You know, he was bringing home some vegetables because he was very poor, didn't have anything else to bring home for supper for his wife and his kids. All he had is a little bit of vegetables. So on his way home, he's walking through the marketplace and he sees this rich man is standing there trying to pull this bull, and other people are trying to help him, too, and nobody's able to make the bull move. He's stuck. He stands still. This poor man had an idea, "I've got vegetables in my hand. An ox, ox likes to eat vegetables." So he goes over and says, "Guys, move aside. I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna get the bull to go to the Beis Hamikdash with me without pushing him, without pulling

13:35 him. Here, I'm gonna show you." So everybody moves aside and he starts waving the vegetables in front of the nose and the eyes of the bull. When the bull sees the vegetables, he starts walking towards the vegetable 'cause he wants to eat it. But in the meantime, the poor man started moving away from the bull, further away and further, and holding the vegetables in his hand. And as he's moving, the c- the book- the bull, the ox, is trying to follow the vegetables and try to get it. So as the poor man keeps moving towards the Beis Hamikdash, the bull follows him 'cause he's trying to get to the vegetables, but as he's trying to get to the vegetables, the vegetables move away because the poor man is holding them, and he's walking towards the Beis Hamikdash. And so pretty soon, the bull ended up inside the Beis Hamikdash. And of course, on the way, the bull kept munching and biting into the vegetables, a little bit here, a little bit there. But he wanted more, wanted more, so he kept walking and walking. By the time they came to the Beis Hamikdash, all the vegetables were eaten up by the bull. But now the rich man was happy because he could give the bull to the Kohanim, and they would shecht the bull and burn the Korban on the Mizbeach. And the rich man was so happy. He could bring this beautiful, beautiful bull, such a big gift. Very few people could bring such

14:56 a fancy present as a Korban to Hashem. And the poor man now didn't have any vegetables left. He was very sad, not because he didn't have vegetables left. He was sad because he felt, "Oi, I wish I could also bring such a Korban to Hashem. All I had is a few vegetables that I had to give away to the, to the ox, to the bull, so that the bull would walk to the Beis Hamikdash, so I sacrificed. I gave away my vegetables so that the bull that the rich man is bringing could go to the Beis Hamikdash, but I can never bring such a beautiful present." He felt, "Oi, I wish, Hashem, one day you make me also rich, so I'll also be able to bring a bull to Hashem. Such a beautiful present, Hashem. I so much want to bring a nice present just like this rich man." And the rich man, he was very proud of himself, "Ah, I brought this beautiful gift." That night, the rich man has a dream. In a dream, he hears a voice telling him that Hashem loved the Korban, the vegetables that the poor man gave up for the bull of the rich man so that the rich man could bring his Korban. Hashem loved the gift, the sacrifice of the vegetables more than the bull. Because this poor man, even though he gave only some vegetables to a bull so the bull could be a Korban, but it doesn't matter. It could be a tiny piece

16:33 of vegetable, but the poor man did it with all his heart. He really wanted to give something nice, the nicest he could give, and the nicest thing he had was just a few vegetables. And Hashem cares about what's in your heart, how much you desire to give, how much love you have when you give a present to Hashem. It doesn't matter how big the gift is. What matters is what you feel in your heart, how much kavana and how much desire you want to do this. And that's what the old man, the g- the guest that's standing in the marketplace surrounded by so many, uh, people from the market all listening to the story. And the old man, the poor man, the guest who was speaking, left the market, left the town. Nobody knew who he was. Nobody even knew his name. Many years later, people found out he was the Baalshem Tov. Baalshem Tov in his early years did not tell anybody who he was. Nobody knew who he was. Nobody heard of the Baalshem Tov, but he would go from town to town, speak to the simple people, people that worked in the marketplace very hard, and they weren't very learned, and he would tell them how much Ha- Hashem loves anything they do, because what Hashem cares is not so much how much you do, but that you do it with all your heart. You really want, you do it with love for Hashem. And everybody in the market was very impressed

18:00 with the words of this guest, including Eliezer Lipa. Eliezer Lipa was like, "Wow, what a story. What a story this guest was telling." He kept walking with his wagon in the water- And he's beginning to think about the story that he just heard in the marketplace, how this poor man gave up his vegetables so that the rich man could bring his carbon, and how Hashem loved the vegetables that he was giving up more than the bull that the rich man brought to the Beis Hamikdash. And he turned to Hashem and says, "Please, Hashem, have rachmanus, have mercy on me. I'd love to serve you like that, like this poor man with his vegetables. I would love to do it with great joy. Please help me to serve you like that." When he came home, he told his wife the story that he heard in the marketplace, and he told her, "You know, we don't have a Beis Hamikdash today, but even though we don't have a Beis Hamikdash, you can still bring a carbon to Hashem. You can give up something. Like you have something that you like, and a friend of you likes it, also likes it. So you're giving it up. You have a toy. Your friend wants to play with the toy, so you give it to him instead. That's also like a carbon. You're giving up something, and you do it with joy. That's like a carbon that this poor man brought. He gave up his vegetables for Hashem with great

19:25 simcha." So Eliezer Lippe says to his wife, "We can also be like this poor man." After a few weeks, Eliezer Lippe was thinking for a few weeks all the time, how can he be like this poor man, doing some special thing for Hashem with great joy? So he thought of an idea. In this town, there were two water carriers, Eliezer Lippe and another one. His name was Zalman Dove. Zalman Dove and Eliezer Lippe were the only water carriers in the town, but they split up the town. Each one got certain families that they provided water for, and they were able to make money that way. Except that Eliezer Lippe, he was given houses from rich people, and rich people, they paid a lot of money for water because they were rich, so they would give a little extra money. Zalman Dove, on the other hand, he wasn't, uh, serving the rich people in the town. He served a few poor families, and there were four shuls in the town. He had a zechus to bring water to the four shuls, but the shuls didn't pay that much. Shuls didn't have a lot of money, so they paid a little bit. So Eliezer Lippe was thinking, "I am serving all the rich people, and I get a lot of money, but my friend Zalman Dove, he can bring water to the shuls, which is a big mitzvah, and he doesn't get a lot of money for it, which means the mitzvah is really big. Maybe I'll

20:58 switch with him. I'll tell him, 'You can take the rich families that I serve. You'll take those people. You'll provide water for them, and I will provide for the people that you are providing. I'm gonna provide for the shuls and the few poor families. I'll make less money, and you can make more money now.'" Zalman Dove was very excited. "Of course, I would love to have your, your customers." But Eliezer Lippe, before he did that, he went and asked his wife. She agr- she agrees that they should earn less money, but they will have the zechus to bring water to the shuls. His wife said, "Of course, and maybe in that zechus, Hashem will have rachmanus, have mercy on our children, and they will begin to understand what they're learning in cheder." So two years went by, and Eliezer Lippe is bringing water with his buckets to the shuls, and then one day he hears, to his surprise, that his two sons are beginning to get it. They're beginning to understand what they're learning. They got older. They already passed bar mitzvah, and they're learning, and they love their learning, and they understand. Something changed. They became smarter, and they decided to go to yeshiva now, to leave the house, to go to another city to learn in yeshiva full-time. The parents were so happy. They thanked Hashem. The mother packed their bags, and she gave them food for the way, and she davened. She said, "Hashem shall help them that when they go to

22:36 yeshiva, they should learn Torah day and night. They should grow to big, be big talmidat chachamim and big tzadikim." As they left, the two sons, Elimelech and Meshulam Zusia, left to yeshiva. Eliezer Lippe's wife says to her husband, "You know, our children just left the house. Why don't we do something, another mitzvah? Let us take in two children, young boys who don't have parents, or their parents are very poor. They don't have money to feed them. They're learning in the, in the cheder, in the Talmud Torah, and we'll take them into our house. Our two sons are now in yeshiva. They're not at home, so we have two beds. We can give them to two other children who don't have beds. Their families are very poor, or their families, they don't have parents. We'll give them a home. We'll give them a place to sleep. We'll give them food, and we'll send them to cheder. We'll treat them like our own kids, and that mitzvah that we'll do, and Hashem will help that our two sons who are in yeshiva will be very successful in yeshiva. They'll learn a lot of Torah. They'll become big talmidat chachamim and tzadikim." The husband agreed, and they found two boys that needed a home, a place to sleep, and they brought them to the house. A few months went by, and one day they get a letter in the mail from the Rosh Yeshiva, where Elimelech and Meshulam Zusia were, were learning, and the Rosh Yeshiva says, "Your

24:11 sons are really matzliach. They are learning so fine. They're learning so much Torah." He's so happy to tell them that they're growing to be great talmidat chachamim. The parents were so happy, and they realized that the zechus, that Eliezer Lippe is bringing water to the shuls. He's not earning a lot of money for it, but he wants to have the zechus of bringing water to the shuls, and in the zechus of worrying and taking care of these two boys who don't have families, that can give them food, helping these boys learning Torah. In that zechus, Hashem blessed that their children are very successful and learning a lot of Torah. Once, Erev Shabbos, Eliezer Lippe went to bring water. Like, like every Friday, people need water in their homes. Erev Shabbos, in the morning, early morning, he would go get water and go to the homes where he would provide the water, sell the water, so people can cook for Shabbos. But as he, uh, is drawing water, he catches a fish. There was a fish in his barrel. He says, "Oh, there's a fish." He comes home, he says to his wife, "We're gonna have fish for Shabbos. H-Hashem blessed us. I was drawing water and a fish came into the water." And of course, the woman was so excited because they hadn't had fish for Shabbos in a long time because they were very poor. Now they're gonna have a fish for Shabbos. So she was cleaning the fish, and as she's opening up

25:44 the belly of the fish in order to take out the bones and cook it for Shabbos, she sees, what? What's going on here? She opens up the belly and she sees something very strange. Something very shiny. It's a diamond. She sees a diamond inside the belly of the fish. When Reb Leizer Lipper came home with the two boys, they went to the mikveh for Shabbos, they came home, the wife was not happy. Leizer said, "Why? Why are you not happy? What happened? What happened?" And she says, "I always hoped that you will continue to draw water and bring water to the, to the shuls, but now I'm afraid you're gonna become rich, and you're gonna stop bringing water because you're gonna be rich. And we're not gonna have the zechus of bringing water to the shuls." He said, "What do you mean?" She said, "Because I just found a diamond. We've become rich." Reb Leizer Lipper was very, very surprised, and he also became sad. "Yeah, maybe Hashem is testing us." And over Shabbos, he was thinking about the diamond. They put away the diamond before Shabbos in a drawer, and the whole Shabbos he was talking to the two boys and to his wife, and he told them a story about a great tzadik in the time of the Gemara. His Yiddish name was Reb Chanina Ben Dosa. Reb Chanina Ben Dosa was very, very poor, and his wife was very sad because they didn't have any food for Shabbos. And one day his

27:19 wife said to her husband, "Reb Chanina Ben Dosa, if it's a big tzadik, why can't you ask Hashem to give us money?" So Reb Chanina Ben Dosa saw how much his wife was upset and pained. He started davening to Hashem that he should help them, give them some treasure so they can have money. And then suddenly, they saw, they saw... They looked up at the ceiling and they see a whole leg of a table made out of pure gold. Looked like a leg of a table. Just the leg itself, made of pure gold, is coming down from the ceiling. Apparently it came from Shamayim. And that leg of gold was worth a lot of money. They could've been rich for the rest of their lives. But that night, the wife of Reb Chanina Ben Dosa saw in a dream that all the tzadikim are sitting in Gan Eden at golden tables with three legs. But she and her husband are sitting by a golden table with only two legs. And she asked, "Where is the third leg for, of our table?" And they told her in Shamayim in a dream that the third ta-- leg, you already got it when you were alive. You remember there was a leg coming down from the sky, from the ceiling? So she woke up and she said to her husband, "No, no, no. Please daven that the Hashem should take back the leg. I don't, uh, I don't mind living a poor life." And so he did, and

28:54 the leg rose up again. It went back up. And Reb Leizer Lipper's telling that story. He started thinking, "You know what?" He said, "It's the same story with Reb Chanina Ben Dosa. Hashem is sending us a diamond to see if we're gonna start living like rich people, having a lot of money, stop doing good things. Maybe Hashem is testing us." And so they decided, "No, we're not gonna use the diamond to be rich. We're gonna use the diamond to do mitzvahs with. We're still gonna live the same life as we lived before, same poor life, and we're gonna still bring water to the shuls. And the diamond, I'm gonna sell and give it to tzedakah." And the wife of Reb Leizer Lipper remembered the story with the Rabbi Yitzchak, the father of Rashi. Rabbi Yitzchak, um, inherited a very expensive diamond from his parents. It was a, a, a most amazing diamond. Probably the most expensive diamond in the world. It was the most beautiful diamond in the world. And the people of the church in the town where Rashi's father lived in France, they wanted to have the diamond for their church, for their Avodah Zarah. So they came and, uh, to Rabbi Yitzchak and they asked him, "Would you sell us the diamond? We need it for our church." And they promised to give him a lot of money. But Rabbi Yitzchak knew that he can't do that because they're gonna use it for Avodah Zarah. So he was next to a river

30:29 when they came to ask him to sell the diamond, and he pretended that he dropped the diamond in the water, and nobody could find it. It was lost. And so the diamond disappeared, and the, the priests couldn't get the diamond. And because he did this amazing thing, he gave up such an expensive diamond to make sure that, uh, he doesn't have to give it to Avodah Zarah, Hashem gave him a present. He had a b-- son, one of the greatest, greatest, greatest people in history, Rashi. Rashi was his son. So she remembered, she said, "You know what? Maybe Hashem is testing us like he tested Rabbi Yitzhak, the father of Rashi. So we need to pass the test, and then Hashem will help us that our children will be even bigger Talmidic Achalim." And Reb Leizer was agreed. They asked the Rav, "Is it okay for us to take the diamond, or do we need to announce it's find? Maybe somebody lost it." The Rav said, "No, when you find a diamond in a fish, you don't have to announce it. You don't have to go ask people if they lost it, because once it's in a fish, nobody thinks they'll get it back. It's Hefker. You don't have to... It's yours. You can keep it." So they sold the diamond and started giving a lot of tzedakah. Give away all the money. They kept nothing for themselves. They still continued to live a poor life. And Reb Leizer Lipper still continued to draw water.

32:03 A year went by, and Reb Leizer Lipper and his wife get a letter from their oldest son, Eli Melech. Eli Melech tells his parents that he's going to get married to one of the rich people in the town where the yeshiva is, and his father-in-law is gonna give him money so he can learn Torah even after he gets married. Reb Leizer Lipper were crying from joy. He said, "Oh, Hashem, you're so nice to us. You helped us that we see our son, our oldest son, to be so great and so special and such a Talmid Chaham, and now he's getting married, and he's happy." After a short while, the youngest son, Meshulam Zusia, also came home to visit his parents, and they saw that he was a big Talmid Chaham and a big Yirash Mayim. And, um, so they were very-- They were so happy. They thanked Hashem. Meshulam Zusia, after a while, also got married and also continued to learn Torah after he got married. Now, once Reb Leizer Lipper went to the river to draw water, and he saw something is pressing against his foot. He was inside with his feet in the water, and he took off his shoes and socks to go inside the water to get water from the river. But as he's standing with his feet inside the river, he feels something is poking at his foot, and he take a look, and he sees there's a little container. And the container, he pulled it out of the ground.

33:30 It was full of gold and silver coins. He brought it home, and he told his wife again about this treasure he found. They got sad again. "Oh, Hashem is testing us again to see if we're gonna act like rich, if we're gonna start spending money buying nice houses and nice jewelry and nice things, and we're gonna stop doing mitzvahs and, and bringing water to the shul." So they decided they're not gonna use this money for their-- or for themselves. They put the whole treasure into the basement, and they kept quietly taking from that money and giving tzedakah to poor families secretly. Nobody would know that they're giving. And so, Meshulam Zusia also got married. Five years went by. Reb Leizer Lipper got old, got very weak. He couldn't continue to work anymore. Schlepping heavy barrels of water was too much for him. He gave over the job of drawing water to another Jew. He told him, "I'm giving you my job on one condition, that you give a little bit of that money to me so I can live also." And so they continued to live with very, very poorly, with very little money. They didn't take any money from the treasure they had in their basement. They used the money from the treasure just to support families that were very poor, slowly using up the money. One day, Reb Leizer Lipper finds out that his uncle, Avram Laib, who raised him, just passed away. And since he didn't have any children, he left everything

35:15 he had to Leizer Lipper and his wife. And he left a lot of stuff, a lot of houses and land. So Leizer Lipper and his wife sold their little house in the town. They, uh, they didn't sell it. They gave it away to the new guy who drew the water instead of Leizer Lipper. And they told him that, um, he should continue to bring water to the shul. And they packed all their bags and moved to the big, big house of his uncle, Avram Laib. And they had a lot of land and a lot of houses on that land. They invited a lot of families of Talmid Chaham to come and live in that big piece of land. They made a shul there, and they supported Talmid Chaham with learned Torah, and also Reb EliMelech and Reb Zusha, who later on became the famous two tzadikim, the brothers, Reb EliMelech and Reb Zusha. They also moved with their families on the land. And we learn from this story, says the Friediker Rebbe, that when a person serves Hashem with all his heart and with so much love, Leizer Lipper and his wife merited to have such children, tzadikim. Geonim and tzadikim that became so famous. Reb EliMelech of Lizhensk and Reb Zusha of Hanipoli.