194. How Reb Mordechai Dov Of Hornosteipel Sent A Panic Attack To A Thief

00:16 Shalom Aleichem, kinderlekh. Wanna tell you a story, an amazing story of a tzadik. His na- his name was Reb Mordche Dove of Horodna Stipol. Reb Mordche Dove of Horodna Stipol was the son of Reb Yankev Yisroel of Cherkas, who was the son of Reb Mordche of Chernobyl. Yankev Yisroel of Cherkas was the son-in-law of the Mitteler Rebbe. So Reb Mordche Dove of Horodna Stipol was the grandson of the Mitteler Rebbe. His mother was the daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe. He was a Rebbe in Horodna Stipol, was a great gaon and wrote many seforim. And the story goes like this. It's a story that was told by, by a Hasid, Reb Chaim Eliezer Marinovsky, was a Lubavitcher Hasid who came from Ukraine, and he heard the story from his uncle, who kn- knew the story, the story with the woman that it happened to. A woman from Horodna Stipol was once traveling with a wagon driver, a goy. She had to go to a certain city. Um, on the way back, she got off the wagon somewhere, and, and she thought she would go home later. She had to go somewhere before she goes home, and the wagon went away. And then after a half an hour, she realized that she had left all her jewelry. She had a whole bag of jewelry, very expensive jewelry, the diamonds and gold, the chains and necklaces and rings. And it was all in the bag, and she left it by mistake in the wagon. But she c-- she

02:08 didn't know even the name of the wagon driver, who he was, who was the baal hagola, the wagon driver. She didn't know his name. He didn't know her name either. She never told him her name. So there's no way she's ever gonna find it. And she was so upset that when she came to Horodna Stipol, she went to the Rebbe of Horodna Stipol, Reb Mordche, Reb Mordche Dove of Horodna Stipol, and she cried, and she said, "Rebbe, this is all my jewelry, and it's worth a lot of money, and this is... I, I, I don't know what to do." And she cried and cried that she, she, she wants the Rebbe to give her a promise that it'll-- she'll find it. But the Rebbe saw that she was crying, so he got up from his seat and went to the window and looked outside and stared outside for a while, for a few minutes. And when he finished staring outside, he turned around to her and he said, "Go home, you'll get it back." That's all he said. So it was like a promise. So this woman believed in tzadikim. If a tzadik says it, it'll happen. She believed him, and she went back home. And believe it or not, a couple hours went by and there's a knock on the door. Who is at the door? A goy. And he says, "Does a woman live here that went with my wagon to travel? Is there a woman that went traveling with me to this

03:42 and this city?" "Yeah?" The woman said, "Yes." He said, "Well, I'm the wagon driver. Did you leave a package in the wagon by mistake?" She says, "Yes," and he gave her back the whole bag. So she was amazed that she said to him, "How is it possible? You didn't even know my name. I didn't even know your name. How would you even find me? How did that happen?" She knew that the Rebbe had promised her, but, but she wanted to know w-how did, how did he find her. So he tells her the story like this: "When I got home and I looked at my wagon, I saw there was a bag there. I realized, I looked inside, and I saw there was like, wow, amazing amount of jewelry. This is, like, a lot of money. And I thought, you know what? I'm gonna keep it for myself. This is a lot of money. I can keep it for myself, and I'll sell it, and I'll make a lot of money. Then at night, I went to sleep, um, I couldn't sleep. I g-- suddenly I felt I was, like, shaking. Shaking and shaking. I, I, like, had this fear. I didn't know where the fear came from. And, and, like, I was... My, my, my, my hands and feet started shivering and shaking from, from, like, this terrible fear I felt inside, and I couldn't understand what I feel. And then I start thinking, oh, I know what I'm afraid of. I'm afraid of because

05:11 I have this bag of jewelry which is stolen. It belongs to this woman. And because I'm stealing it, I'm afraid that maybe the police is gonna come and catch the jewelry, and then they're gonna arrest me and put me in jail." So I, I says, "I decided to go and look for you," for the, for the woman. "So I traveled all around the area asking people if you know a woman who traveled with my wagon, and I... It took me a long time, but till I found someone who said, 'Yeah, I know who traveled with you. It's the woman, she lives over there in this house.' So I came now to give it back." When they came, when they asked the, the, the goy, "What time did you start feeling this suddenly, these terrible fears, right? Anxiety and fears and panic. When did you start feeling it?" So he told them, like, in the evening, I, I wanted to go to sleep early because I was very tired. So it was like, um, you know, this, seven o'clock. This was exactly the time when the woman was by the Rebbe, and the Rebbe went to the window and looked outside. And that's when he started shivering and, and, and trembling from great fear. So then they realized that Reb, Reb Mordche Dove with his kedusha, with his, you know, power that he had of kedusha, he was able to send fear and panic into the heart of this goy, so he would feel a need

06:33 to go and bring it back to the woman.