Did You Believe? | Rabbi Moshe Taub

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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.

Every year, in Baranovich, R’ Elchonon Wasserman would repeat a story. That's a story that many of us know, we're not going to go into all the details, but it's the story of the Dibbuk and the Chofetz Chaim. One day, it was Erev Parshas Zachor, a knock on the Chofetz Chaim’s door. There was a man there, explaining that his daughter was possessed with a foreign Neshama. The Chofetz Chaim, after a few questions, believed him, and after a series of events, the Chofetz Chaim needed a Minyan, a Minyan of Malachei Elokim Tzvakos, of Tzaddikim. And R’ Elchonon, he was one of them. And the Chofetz Chaim told them exactly what was going to happen. The details are mixed, but we know that the Chofetz Chaim said it's going to exit, the Neshama, through her pinky, and from there, the Neshama’s going to have to go through a window, and they say very particular kapitlech of Tehillim. Of course, they asked this Neshama some very particular questions, a story for a different time. And at the moment that it was going to happen, they say the kapitl Tehillim, the woman screams, her pinky begins to bleed, the Neshama leaves through a crack in the window.

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1. 0:05Every year, in Baranovich, R’ Elchonon Wasserman would repeat a story. That's a story that many…
2. 0:35And the Chofetz Chaim told them exactly what was going to happen. The details are mixed,…
3. 1:06Why did R’ Elchonon repeat this story every year? And why am I repeating it to…
4. 1:38that it was a Nisayon and I passed the Nisayon. But after I witnessed what I…
5. 2:10that Hakadosh Baruch Hu threw us into this wild Hellenistic generation. This is not a pain.…

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