By Dovid Zaklikowski for COLlive and Hasidic Archives
One day, a heated argument erupted between two women who were vendors in the Babroisk market. Flushed and indignant, they arrived at the home of the city’s rabbi, Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Atinger, who served as the rabbi of Babroisk for five decades. The rabbi listened to them both and rendered his decision.
Unfortunately, the losing party did not take the decision well, and she began to hurl insults and profanity at the respected rav. Rabbi Atinger sat patiently listening to her, but his wife was shocked. She approached her husband and demanded, “Banish this wicked person from our home!”
With a smile on his face, the rabbi replied, “Don’t worry. She doesn’t really mean it. It is just her anger speaking.” At this, the woman got even angrier and let fly some especially choice obscenities.
Now the rabbi’s wife became angry herself and made to personally eject the woman from their house.
But the rabbi merely turned to the raging woman.
“Please, let me ask you, do you want to have children like me?”
Without hesitating, the woman responded, “If only G-d will be so kind as to give me such children!”
“You see?” the rabbi said to his wife. “She does not really mean what she is saying.”
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