Today I told Prof. Susannah Heschel a story about the Apter Rov and Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Barditchev, which also involved the Alter Rebbe and the Heilige Ruzhiner. By the time I finished she was quietly sobbing. "I am a descendant of all of them" she said. #AJS21
Rabbi Yisrael of Ruzhin told the following story: When the Rabbi [Avraham Yehoshua Heshel] of Apt came to the city of Jassy, on the Holy Sabbath he delivered a great homily. And present there were people referred to by the name Habad who made sport of this ...
And afterwards the Rabbi of blessed memory visited the Rabbi of Berditchev, and he told him of what these people did to him, since the Rabbi of Berditchev was the in-law of the Rabbi, Rabbi [Shneur] Zalman [of Liadi] of blessed memory ...
And afterwards he [the Rabbi of Berditchev] said these words: In every generation there are people who cast doubt upon the righteous, [as it is written] “and they would gaze after Moses [critically]”; the Rabbi of Apt is the aspect of Moses in his generation …
Source: Sefer Pe’er leyesharim (Jerusalem, 1921), 50b.
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