“There are three chassidim who have given me nachas,” the Rebbe once told Reb Zalman Gurary in a private yechidus.
“There are three chassidim who have given me nachas,” the Rebbe once told Reb Zalman Gurary in a private yechidus.
The first was Reb Moshe Gurkov. After one farbrengen in which the Rebbe strongly encouraged Torah-teaching, he immediately moved with his family to disseminate Torah in Boston, MA, without knowing where they would lay their heads that night.
Another was the chazan Reb Moshe Teleshevsky. He served as a chazan in a modern shul which had a questionable mechitza. As soon as he received a directive from the Rebbe to leave, he left town that night, despite not having another source of parnassa.
The third was Reb Michoel Teitelboim who was a legendary warrior for higher standards amongst chassidim. “He doesn’t wait to be told everything, he simply gets on with the work,” the Rebbe said.
(Bechol Beisi Ne’man Hu, page 312)