In his dream, he saw himself ailing and weak, while the news spread throughout the city that the Rav was in grave danger
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T he town of Nasaud in Hungary was not officially a Jewish city although it often seemed like it considering all the rabbanim geonim dayanim and Torah scholars as well as
G-d- fearing laymen who resided in its midst.
The city’s spiritual leader Rav Avraham Yehoshua Freund ztz”l was considered one of the tzaddikim of his generation. While he resided in Nasaud his spiritual influence and piskei halachah spread far beyond the city limits to the rest of the country and even abroad. He was a devoted chassid of the Divrei Chaim of Sanz and in addition to his vast Torah knowledge he was also known as an ascetic and a wonder worker.
He received halachic questions and requests to resolve complex dinei Torah from all over Europe. Cases involving agunos that seemed to have no solution and many other halachic conundrums were presented to him and with his brilliance and tremendous siyata d’Shmaya he was often able to bring about a reasonable resolution.
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