By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Eliezer Shlomo Schik, a prominent leader in the Breslov movement known for spreading its teachings, had an odd request while spending Pesach with his followers in Monsey, NY.
On Motzoei Shabbos chol hamoed, he asked to be taken to the Old Montefiore Cemetery in Cambria Heights, Queens, and to be there at precisely 1:35 AM.
Rabbi Schik, a prolific author and publisher of Breslov teachings and Rov of “Breslov City” in the Galilee town of Yavne’el in Israel, also asked that the trip not be publicized in advance.
When his son, Rabbi Moshe Schik, Rav of the Heichal Hakodesh community in Monsey, asked for the reason, his father said he wanted to pray at the Ohel gravesite of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Only later did the senior Rabbi Schik agree to share the purpose of the late night trip.
“Exactly a year ago, on the eve of 19 Nissan 5772, I suffered a heart-attack in the middle of learning. It was exactly at 1:35 AM,” he began telling his son.
“Throughout the surgery, while I was under general anesthesia, I saw the Rebbe of Lubavitch OBM standing over me and caressing my head.”
Rabbi Schik, also known as Mohorosh, said he saw the Rebbe telling him a few times, “Don’t worry. You’ll make it. I am caring for you that everything will pass. You’ll make it.”
“The is the reason why I am here at the same time as my heart-attack, to thank G-d Almighty that the Rebbe had a part in saving my life,” he concluded.
Heard a story that a Breslover presented the Rebbe with one of the Breslov sefarim. The Rebbe asked him something like, “how much do you sell it for?” The Breslover told him. The Rebbe said,”Only ?? dollars for such a great book?”
a chasid only go’s to the king
Around 40 years ago R’ Schik brought to 770 some of those Breslover books he prints and they give out. He gave them to the Rebbe when the Rebbe was coming out to mincha upstairs. The Rebbe turned around to go back to his office and get $$ to pay him, and some bochurim angrily told him off for wasting the Rebbes time. The Rebbe heard, turned around, and said to the bochurim in yiddish; “you can learn from him what means yofutzu maynosecho chutzo” (ir kent lernen fun em vos heist y.m.c….)!!
what an amazing story! the rebbe is with us
Wow … amazing story
i’m amazed cause i checked there web site (breslevcity) i couldn’t believe how attached the bresleve rebe is to the rebi.
I became a chabad chusid many years ago. At one point I began to feel a strong attachment to Breslovov chasidus and to the teachings of Rav Nachman z’chuso alaynu. Since the rebbe is no longer with us I opened a volume of the rebbe”s igereth ha kodesh to ask if I should travel to Uman to say the 10 chapters of t’hilim(tikun haklali)at the tziyon of rav Nachman. The letter that I opened to made no mention of Breslov, Rabeynu hakodesh,or Uman,so I assumed that the rebbe did not want me to go. As soon as I closed the… Read more »
the Rebbe is not a descendant of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, RAbbi Nachman was a grandson of the Baal Shem Tov, the Rebbe is a descendant of the Schneerson dynasty, beginning with the Alter Rebbe who was the spiritual, not physical, grandchild of the Baal Shem Tov,
Thank you hashem, may he come and redeem us!
Amazing story!
how is the rebbe is descendant of R Nachman of Breslov?
Do we really have to argue about this too?????????? please, just sit back and say Boruch Hashem for this wonderful story, and appreciate that Rav Schick agreed to have this published. Borcheinu Ovinu KULANU Ke’echod….
“the sh’chinah rest at the head of a sick man”
amazing!!!!
The Rebbe is with us!
Beautiful
wow wow wow
Really? Then why didn’t R’ Nachman himself come? Your assessment is absurd. The Rebbe came because the Rebbe still watches over and cares for each one of us and will continue to caress out neshomois until we leave this golus!
wow… what more can be said… the Lubavitcher Rebbe is always there for Yidden everywhere….
wow!
that is an amazing story!
Wow
THE REASON THE REBBE CAME TO RABBI SCHIK IS BESIDES THE FACT THAT THE REBBE CARES FOR EVERY YID BUT ALSO THE REBBE IS DESCENDED FROM RABBI NACHMAN OF BRESLOV WOSE FIRE WILL BURN TILL THE COMING OF MOSHIACH
amazed!! just got the chills!!
kidush chabad!!
amazing story!
A truly inspiring and beautiful story. Chag sameach!
Amazing
thats amazing!
just shows what a true rebbe is!
Amazing story.
I was in New York for Pesach and was fortunate to daven in Rav Schik’s minyan in Boro Park both mornings on the first days of Yuntif this year. Truly tzadik is devoted to hafatzas hamayanos!
Here’s a letter Rav Schik wrote last Beis Elul to someone inquiring about learning the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s seforim:
http://www.breslevcity.co.il/שות_ברסלב_0792
And here’s a letter from Rav Schik about learning Tanya:
http://www.breslevcity.co.il/שות_ברסלב_0572
Refuah Shelemah,and the Rebbe did say “Open Your Eyes!”