Here are some nice things I heard from Reb Melech
Biderman who spoke here last night in RBS at Bergsaz
In Reb Zisha's home everyone was crying and in the
beis midrash he was joyfully dancing
When Rav Zisha was asked why this was so
he answered:
"they are crying because they rely on me I am
joyfully dancing because I rely on the One Above, I rely on
Hashem!"
Reb Mendel Fisfuter learned the following concept
from a gentile tight rope acrobat:
When I cross the tightrope if I look down
or think about my next move I will fall to my death
rather I think "Nisht Do
Keint Velt! Nor der fisseleh! and I place my foot down." There is no world,
nothing exists ecept this moment except the very next step, and that is how I
move forward across the tightrope.
Reb Mendel taught based on this, when
walking life's tightrope one must think, nothing exists! there is no world! only
my next step matters, if I can only concentrate on the mext move I will move
forward."
He said in the name of Reb Dovid Lelover a lesson
in humility, that when the king removes his crown to hang it, he hangs it on a
nail in the wall, on a peg. He wont place it on the head of one of his highest
ministers or ranking officials lest they begin to think of themselves as
king!
Similarly the Master of the World, hangs His crown on a person only if
he knows that he is nothing but a nail, no more significant than a peg in the
wall!