Zechusamזכותם

Story · 1 min read

Hallel on Parshas Beshalach

A story ofRav Yitzchok Isaac Taubהרב יצחק אייזיק בן משה יחזקאל טויבProfile ›

Rav Yitzchok Isaac of Kaliv was once in Lizhensk for Parshas Beshalach. The Rebbe Elimelech asked the Kaliver to be absent when he said Torah at the tisch, for a secret reason that he would not divulge. But the Kaliver did not want to miss the chance to hear the Rebbe's chassidic discourse, and he stayed.

As soon as the Noam Elimelech began to say Torah, the Kaliver jumped up from the table and ran back and forth through the whole house, singing Hallel at the top of his voice. Everyone present was very surprised at such unusual behavior.

Afterward the Kaliver explained himself. "When the Rebbe spoke about the weekly parsha, I was filled with such excitement, and it set me so aflame with hislahavus (fiery enthusiasm), that I imagined myself to be in the midst of offering the Korban Pesach. And so I sang Hallel."

More on Simcha

Rav Yosef Shlomo KahanemanThe Flag Over PonovezhOn Israel's Independence Day the Ponevezher Rav insisted that the flag of Israel be flown outside the Ponovezh yeshivah, a practice that continues to this day. He also did not say…1 min read Rav Yaakov Yosef Twersky of SkverSimchas Torah in SkverRav Neta Freund once related that every year on Simchas Torah, Rav Yaakov Yosef of Skver would complete the Ohr HaChaim and begin studying it again from Bereishis. He then danced…1 min read Rav Avrohom Yehuda Leib HaKohen SchwartzWho Has Olom Hazeh?At the age of twenty, Rav Yudele Greenfeld of Semihali, later the author of Kol Yehuda, Shu"t Maharshag and Zehav Sheva, learned under the Kol Arye. He once told how, during a…1 min read Rav Chaim Meir HagerAlways Yom TovIt is well known that all year long Rav Chaim Meir, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, lived in a Yom Tov atmosphere. The parsha read each week awakens the times and the feelings, and so each…1 min read