Only the secret kabbalists of Tel Aviv and a handful of tzaddikim of the generation knew that behind the ever-present scowl was Rav Yehudah Zev Leibowitz, a holy wonder worker
For decades the residents of Tel Aviv knew the municipal surveyor as a reclusive eccentric Holocaust survivor. Only the secret kabbalists of Tel Aviv and a handful of tzaddikim of the generation knew that behind the ever-present scowl was Rav Yehudah Zev Leibowitz a holy wonder-worker. But even as his persona became public toward the end of his life he took most of his secrets with him to the Next World — while hopefully having sweetened the decrees in this one
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espite the Jew’s regal bearing and prestigious lineage the dejection on his face was obvious as he entered the small yet well-used chamber of the Beis Yisrael of Gur ztz”l. What good was all that honor if he and his wife were childless after so many years of marriage?
The Beis Yisrael listened to the man’s problem and then replied in his typical terse style: “I’ll send you to someone in Tel Aviv. If he is ready to bless you you will have children. He lives at3 Chevron Street. He’ll send you away at first but hold your ground and tell him I sent you.”
Without further ado the petitioner made his way to Chevron Street. He didn’t find a kloiz beis medrash or anything remotely similar to a miracle-working baba there. At3 Chevron Street lived a lonely eccentric recluse.
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