Reb Shlomo on Reb Motte'le Chernobyler
Reb Motele Chernobler was the one who looked after the Lamed Vav Tzaddikim, and Eliyahu Hanavi would always hang loose around Reb Motele Chernobler.
The Gemara says, if the Yiddelech would keep two Shabbos then Moshiach would come. Rav Mordekhai Chernobeler says: it is the Shabbos above and the Shabbos below. Shabbos below has 39 things which you are not permitted to do. It is very important. Then there is the Shabbos above. The question is where do you begin. Are you going to begin by telling people: "Don't do this, don't do that". They are not interested. Or are you going to give them a Shabbos above. Oneg Shabbos, the bliss of Shabbos, Shabbos is so good.
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I'll tell you something. It's a good thing to tell a story of Reb Motele Chernobler under the Chuppah. Reb Motele Chernobler was the one who looked after the Lamed Vav Tzaddikim, and Eliyahu Hanavi would always hang loose around Reb Motele Chernobler. Reb Motele Chenobler, when he was twelve, thirteen, fourteen, he had this craziness, that he would walk up to someone, and mamash give him a frask. You know, a patch. He didn't say anything, he'd just give them a patch. I'm sure he knew what it's for, and the person who got it, also knew what it's for. But he never said anything. So there were some Chassidim who were complaining, "When he'll be a Rebbe, he can do whatever he wants, but now he is just a Bar Mitzvah boy". Maybe he has clear prophecy from one corner of the world to the other, but which Chassid who is seventy years old wants to `chap' a frask, from a boy of Bar Mitzvah? So Reb Nachum, his father, calls him in. His father says to him, "You know you are making me trouble with my Chassidim. Do me a favor, stop giving people patches." So Reb Motele says, "OK".
And the truth is, whenever Reb Motele was travelling, nobody wanted to go with him, because they were afraid. But since word got around that Reb Motele stops hitting... so OK. The next day Reb Motele announces that he's going to a certain village. So a Chassid says, "I'm going with you. Still, the Rebbe's son needs a Shamesel, a holy escort." So they're coming to that village and they arrive there four in the morning. And as they are driving in, suddenly the dogs begin to bark. So Reb Motele looks at the Chassid and he says, "The dogs are barking." Gives him a `frask'. He says, "What's going on there? You promised you won't hit anyone." Reb Motele doesn't say anything. Let's say they arrived in that city ten minutes after four in the morning. A few days later, they come back, and the Chassid runs back to Reb Motele, "You know, when we arrived in that city, ten minutes after four, my wife prematurely gave birth to a baby." A little boy or a little girl, whatever it was. So Reb Motele says, "Now you understand why I hit you? Because the dogs were telling you `Mazel Tov'. And you, stupid fool, didn't understand it." So here, all the dogs on the Moshav are barking. Mazel tov. Mazel tov.
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Reb Mottele Chernobler says, ( this is a Torah which changed my whole life) the Yid who does not believe that you can do the most terrible, terrible sin in the world, and two seconds later you can go in the corner and pour out your heart before G-d like on Yom Kippur, then you are really deep down a pagan. It means that if you can really think that there's anything in the world that can make you a stranger to G-d, then you have no idea what G-d is all about.
[Ed. Note - This article is worth a read - https://jewish-faculty.biu.ac.il/sites/jewish-faculty/files/shared/JSIJ5/lewis.pdf SA]