As Far as You Can Go | Rabbi Aryeh Kerzner

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The opening of this shiur, in Vayimaen’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

The Belzer Rebbe once came down with a very serious illness. And after this episode, the doctor had a very strict directive for him, that going forward, you have to be extremely careful about germs. Don't go around places that have germs, because you don't want to get sick again. You don't want to catch a disease from people. And... included in this directive is avoiding the Mikvah. And for the Belzer Rebbe, as you can imagine, this was a very painful pill to swallow. The Rebbe, especially, observed unparalleled Kedushah and sanctity, when he immersed in the Mikvah, and now he's being told that it's off limits, because it's not safe for him. A couple of weeks later, a close friend of the Rebbe happened to be walking to Shul that morning, and to his utter shock, he notices the Rebbe walking into the Mikvah house. And he's a little troubled by this, because he knew about the doctor's orders, but he figured: You know what? Before I pass any judgment, maybe I should probe a little further. Tomorrow, I'm actually going to go to the Mikvah at that time that the Rebbe goes to Shul, and I'm going to see what happens. And that's what he did. The next morning, this fellow, he goes into the Mikvah house,

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1. 0:05The Belzer Rebbe once came down with a very serious illness. And after this episode, the…
2. 0:37when he immersed in the Mikvah, and now he's being told that it's off limits, because…
3. 1:09he walks into the Mikvah, and he watches to see if the Rebbe comes. And in…
4. 1:40in the way we confront challenges to our Kedushah and our purity. When a person has…
5. 2:11If the Rebbe wasn't able to go into the Mikvah, because it wasn't safe, okay. Every…
6. 2:41so be it. If you're able to close the breach for one hour a day, so…

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