Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Day 1, 11:00 PM: The Ropshitzer


We paid a relatively brief visit to the tomb of R' Naftali of Ropshitz on our way to Lizhensk. Akiva give us a quick speech about R' Naftali before we got off the bus: how he always served Hashem with simcha, and used badchanus as his avodah.

In fact, the Chozeh of Lublin once felt himself unable to recite tikkun chatzos, and later discovered that R' Naftali was engaged in a badchanus routine at the time. "His badchanus is greater than my weeping over the Beis Hamikdash", he said.

May has memory be a blessing.

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