Daily Dose of Inspiration!!! A True Tzadik or a Fake? - An Amazing Story by Rabbi Alon Atiya Shlita

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The opening of this shiur, in הרב אלון עטיה - הערוץ הרשמי’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

And therefore, one of the greatest things that Rabbi Nachman indeed wrote —though his student put it into writing, he wrote it for the world, he showed it—is to say, know that you must be connected to a true Tzaddik. What is a true Tzaddik? Not someone who has PR agents saying he is a Tzaddik. He has a class, he has videos, recordings—that means nothing. I must say this to the public. Sometimes we see righteous people who appear righteous in our eyes, but we do not know the truth. On Friday, we were privileged to be at the funeral of the Kabbalist and Tzaddik, Rabbi David Shalom Basri, may his merit protect us. To hear the things being said, listen, these are concepts from many hundreds of years ago. He was fortunate that his grandfather, Rabbi Yehuda Fatiyah, was his godfather. He passed away at 85 approximately. His son, Rabbi Yitzhak, may he live a long life, gave a eulogy. He said that when they held an 80th birthday party for him, there was a joke, his spirits were high, so he likely asked his father to tell him something that made him happy, and he told him that since the age of nine, he had not committed a single transgression, neither biblical nor rabbinic. How many can give such a simple testimony between themselves and their son? He didn’t say this in speeches, he didn't tell stories, how he suffered—it is his son who tells it. If he would arrive in various places in the south or north, and suddenly someone approached him, wanting to kiss his hand, calling him " Rabbi," he would look at his son and scold him: "Who told them I am a Rabbi? " He would be angry: "I am a simple man ." Why? Perhaps put up your picture, say that you are the famous Gaon, the

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