�����: [Cz-L] The Legend

Whatever the learned or hereditary Rabbis thought or said about the Baal Shem Tov, I can only recall - with intensive pleasure - the wonderful mornings or afternoons I spent on a bench in the Schiller Park - which was a few minutes walk from my home in Althgasse 7 - with my grandpa, absorbing the marvelous stories about the miracles performed by the Baal Shem Tov. At the age of 5 or 6, all these fantasies were so real, especially since the storyteller knew his trade - or perhaps even believed in it (he was a Nadworner khusid) .
Of course there was a specific purpose in telling the stories, and captivating the imagination and attention of the little kid, who was loathe to take anything substantial into his mouth (unbelievable today, but I recall vividly that I sat at a separate table in the kitchen, with my kinderfraeulein supervising my hour-long attempts to swallow a little food - with a threatening hazelnut rod lying besides the dish...).
But there, in the Schiller park, I swallowed in minutes the delicious toasts prepared by my grandpa, with plenty of butter inside, and plenty of garlic rubbed in on both sides of the toast . Those were the days of magic....

Mordecai
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מאת: HARDY BREIER
תאריך: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 8:17
נושא: [Cz-L] The Legend
אל: CZERNOWITZ-L

> The Rebbe Shlomo of Rodomsk pithily declared, "Whoever believes
> all the miracle stories about the Baal Shem Tov in Shivhei
> HaBaal Shem Tov is a fool, but whoever denies that he could have
> done them is an apikoros [a heretic]." Similarly, the Rebbe
> Mordechai of Neshkiz explains, "Even if a story about him never
> actually occurred, and there was no such miracle, it was in the
> power of the Baal Shem Tov, may his memory be a blessing for the
> life of the World-to-Come, to perform everything."[2]
> Hardy
>
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> =
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