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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Inspiring story about the Satmar Rov -- nothing you've heard before, trust me.

The previous Satmar Rov, R'Yoel Teitelbaum, was being treated by a pious Jewish doctor in Europe before WWII. The Satmar Rov told the doctor, "I'll give you my entire chelek olam haba (portion in the world to come) if you convert to Christianity".

**pause to breath**

I heard this story from a very chashuv (intentionally unnamed) rabbi who's intention was to inspire, as in, 'Would you believe that the Rebbe would have given up everything important to him just so his chassidim wouldn't have to witness the dichotomy between religious observance and secular knowledge?'

If you're not depressed yet, you obviously did not understand the story.

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