Rabbi Yoel Kahan A"H - Part VIII

00:00 The continuation to the earlier installments regarding an overview of Rabbi Elkhanan's life, we now continue with installment number eight, where we will discuss additional stories about the Rebbe which Rabbi Yael shared with the , his students. One of the stories Rabbi Yael mentions that this was a tekufah right after the hishtalkus of the previous rebbe, 1950. A child of a nash, of one of the Hasidim was very sick and had high fever. The doctors said that there is a need for surgery. The father consulted with the rebbe, and the rebbe told him, "There is no need to make surgery. He will be well." And the father told the doctors that he is not consenting for the surgery. A few days passed, and the child's illness became even more intense, and the doctor said if the father does not consent for the surgery, the doctor will not come to visit the sick person anymore because this is something which is very necessary to do. It must be done. If not, there's no other way how to cure this child. And this was also the opinion of many experts. The father went into the rebbe and he told the rebbe this new update, and the rebbe told him with the same , "There is no need to do the surgery. He will be well." A day later, the health of the child improved and the doctors were beside themselves. Beside themselves, they couldn't understand what happened here. Another story Rabbi Yael mentions is what he heard

02:13 from Rab Shalom Ber Gordon that it was many weeks after, uh, the hishtalkus. He was in Newark then in New Jersey. Rab Shalom Ber had a shul in Maplewood, New Jersey, and there was a child who was playing baseball and he got hurt. He hurt his head from something, uh, which was metal. The doctors gave him a few hours. That's all they can predict. This was a very bad accident. The parents turned to Rab Shalom Ber, and he took the name and the mother's name of this boy, and he immediately contacted the rebbe, and the rebbe responded that he should again check the name of the child. Rab Shalom Ber ran to the hospital and he found out that there was an error. Instead of the w- name Baruch, he said the name Berel. And the rebbe immediately alerted him to it, and this was a from the Baal Shem's times. The was that the rebbe blessed the child, and the child was saved in a higher than a natural manner. Another story that is told in to the months after the hishtalkus of the previous rebbe, it was then that the rebbe turned down the, uh, request to accept the nesius. And one of the went into the rebbe's room and requested from him he should accept the nesius, leadership. The rebbe, as usual, turned it down. And whatever proof they brought, brought, the rebbe did not relate to it. At one point, one of the Hasidim reminded himself a story that happened at

04:25 the chassan of the rebbe. When the previous rebbe put on the gartel on the rebbe, the previous rebbe said, "I am not making a bracha now because I have already made the bracha in the morning ," which means the one, Hashem, who girds the Jewish nation with might. The moment that this Hasid began telling the story to the rebbe, the rebbe's face grew pale, and he did not make any comment about this.