Eyebrows and a Guarded Glance
It is told that Rav Lieber stood taller than the men around him, and that his eyebrows grew so thick that they hung down over his eyes. When he had to look at someone, he would raise them for a moment, glance, and let them fall again, so that his eyes would not rest on anything forbidden. His beard reached down to his belt, and he never trimmed it, for fear of pulling out a single hair by mistake.
More stories of Rav Eliezer Lieber Ashkenazi
All 4 ›Eliyahu Sees Rav LieberThe Baal Shem Tov is quoted as saying that many tzaddikim merited a revelation of Eliyahu Hanavi, but with Rav Lieber it was the other way around. It was Eliyahu who had a…Taking the Decree Upon HimselfIt is told that during a plague Rav Lieber called four men to him. He told them that he would take the decree upon himself, and that he would soon pass from the world. He promised…