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A story ofRav Yehoshua Horowitzהרב יהושע בן מאיר הורוויץProfile ›
The Ateres Yehoshua once overheard two men in conversation. One said to the other, "Why do you allow your son to play with such unwholesome friends?"
"It is not so bad," the other replied. "Why make such a fuss over nothing? He is just a little boy."
The holy Dzikover turned to the astonished man and said, "How do you know that he is just a little boy? Perhaps he is an eighty-year-old man who has come back to this world to rectify, through tikkun, whatever he ruined in a previous gilgul."
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