The Berditchever's Matzo - Chag Kasher VeSameyach
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Rabbi Tal Zwecker
Apr 6, 2012, 10:39:03 AM4/6/12
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One Pesach the Maggid of Mezritch sent via a shliach (an agent) 3 hand baked Shmurah Matzos to his beloved student Rav levi Yitzchok of Berditchev.
"Beware!" he warned the shliach, "these matzos are only for Rav Levi Yitzchak!"
The shliach thought to himself, wow if only I could merit to have a matzo from the Maggid at my seder!
Then he thought, why dont I just take one matzo for myself. Rav Levi Yitzchok will surely never realize. And so he did. He handed over two matzos to the Berditchever and kept one for himself.
Now the Maggid's matzos were extra thin and well done charcoal black so as to ensure that they were well baked and chametz free. This unique looking matzo adorned the shliach's seder table and when the time came for the mitzvah of eating the matzo, he pronounced the blessings and ate a kezayis, an olive sized portion from the Maggid's matzo.
No sooner did he attempt to swallow it when he began choking and screaming. He fell to the floor writhing in apparent agony. His poor distressd family tried to get him to cough up the matzo to no avail. Whatever they did awoke him and then he promptly screamed and fainted off straight away. Eventually after enlisting the help of neighbors and friends they called for the Rav.
"Please explain exactly what happened," ordered Rav Levi Yitzchok. The wife described how her husband had simply eaten a kezayis matzo and how he choked and screamed and how he kept fainting. "Describe the matzo please," when she described the black charcoaled thin matzo Rav Levi Yitzchok's features turned grave, "Oy Vey if he ate from my special matzos he is in grave danger indeed!" "Please Rebbe dave my husband, the tearfull woman pleaded.
"here," he gave her a piece of marror, "give him a piece of my marror," when she did, he promptly coughed up the kezayis matzo and returned to himself. Once he had somewhat recovered, Rav Levi Yitzchok asked the poor Jew what had transpired? "Oy Rebbe, I am so sorry! I took your matzo, now I understand the Maggid's warnings!!! For no sooner did I eat rom your matzo and the entire room filled with the entire retinue of the heavenly beings, all manor of fiery angels and seraphs descended and all the heavens opened up and I saw their myriads hosts! I was seized by such fright that I fainted. Each time my family revived me, I saw them and fainted again, until I coughed up the matzo."
And now we know what Rav levi Yitzchok of Berditchev experienced when he ate the Maggid's matzo!
Chag Kasher VaSameyach!!!
"Beware!" he warned the shliach, "these matzos are only for Rav Levi Yitzchak!"
The shliach thought to himself, wow if only I could merit to have a matzo from the Maggid at my seder!
Then he thought, why dont I just take one matzo for myself. Rav Levi Yitzchok will surely never realize. And so he did. He handed over two matzos to the Berditchever and kept one for himself.
Now the Maggid's matzos were extra thin and well done charcoal black so as to ensure that they were well baked and chametz free. This unique looking matzo adorned the shliach's seder table and when the time came for the mitzvah of eating the matzo, he pronounced the blessings and ate a kezayis, an olive sized portion from the Maggid's matzo.
No sooner did he attempt to swallow it when he began choking and screaming. He fell to the floor writhing in apparent agony. His poor distressd family tried to get him to cough up the matzo to no avail. Whatever they did awoke him and then he promptly screamed and fainted off straight away. Eventually after enlisting the help of neighbors and friends they called for the Rav.
"Please explain exactly what happened," ordered Rav Levi Yitzchok. The wife described how her husband had simply eaten a kezayis matzo and how he choked and screamed and how he kept fainting. "Describe the matzo please," when she described the black charcoaled thin matzo Rav Levi Yitzchok's features turned grave, "Oy Vey if he ate from my special matzos he is in grave danger indeed!" "Please Rebbe dave my husband, the tearfull woman pleaded.
"here," he gave her a piece of marror, "give him a piece of my marror," when she did, he promptly coughed up the kezayis matzo and returned to himself. Once he had somewhat recovered, Rav Levi Yitzchok asked the poor Jew what had transpired? "Oy Rebbe, I am so sorry! I took your matzo, now I understand the Maggid's warnings!!! For no sooner did I eat rom your matzo and the entire room filled with the entire retinue of the heavenly beings, all manor of fiery angels and seraphs descended and all the heavens opened up and I saw their myriads hosts! I was seized by such fright that I fainted. Each time my family revived me, I saw them and fainted again, until I coughed up the matzo."
And now we know what Rav levi Yitzchok of Berditchev experienced when he ate the Maggid's matzo!
Chag Kasher VaSameyach!!!
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