Remembering the Sadigura Rebbe ztz”l
We all knew the Rebbe’s health was terribly poor, yet we could never, ever have imagined such a situation. Through the hardest and most painful times, the Rebbe always remained positive and upbeat, exuding joy and confidence to all. Perhaps that is why, of all the emotions swirling in our hearts, a feeling of longing and love is stronger than sorrow.
How is it possible that even people who had just recently gotten to know the Rebbe were able to develop a connection with him as deep as with a family member?
I myself was very fortunate to have such a kesher with him, for many years. Through a very strange hashgachah, I was zocheh to spend a lot of time in the Rebbe’s presence over the last year and a half of his life.
I was born into a family of Sadigura chassidim. My great-great-grandfather, Rav Gedaliah Schorr ztz”l, was very closely connected to Sadigura in Europe, an inheritance passed down to his son, Rav Avraham Schorr ztz”l, and then to the next generation, including my grandfather Rav Aaron. (The Knesses Mordechai zy”a, the Ateres Yisrael’s grandfather — who led a very large chassidus Hy”d before the Holocaust — is known to have said that he was left with just a few chassidim after the war, among them my great-uncle Rav Gedaliah Schorr and the Skulener Rebbe, Rav Eliezer Zusia Portugal ztz”l.)
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