Sweeping the Streets

It is told that after the Anschluss of 1938, Germans seized the Rebbe in Vienna and forced him to sweep the street while onlookers laughed at him. He said that if Hashem brought him to Eretz Yisroel, he would gladly sweep its streets.

When he reached Eretz Yisroel, he kept his word. Early each morning he swept the streets around his house in Tel Aviv, until one of his chassidim noticed what he was doing.