By COLlive reporter
The Zlotchover Rebbe, R’ Mordechai Meir Mechlowitz, a descendant of R’ Yechiel Michel of Zlochov, a disciple of the Baal Shem Tov, recently paid a visit of Chabad of Brooklyn Heights in New York.
He was greeted by Shliach Rabbi Ari Raskin, who leads the local Jewish community and is an prolific author of books on Torah and Chassidus teachings.
The two spoke together about the history of Chabad-Lubavitch and the selfless dedication of Chabad Shluchim and Chassidim towards other Jews around the world.
The Zlotchover Rebbe related that the Tzaddik Reb Yankele Leiser of Antwerp, a man of truth, once said that in his youth he didn’t consider any other Jewish families to be “real frum Yidden.”
That was until he ended up in Siberia and saw first-hand how Chabad Chassidim would go on Mesiras Nefesh for Yiddishkeit. It was then that he said: “These are the Real Frum Yidden, and I am a nothing.”
TheZlotchover Rebbe added that when Yaakov was giving out Brachos, his son Yosef wanted that his eldest son Menashe receive the greater blessings, with Yaakov wanted the younger Efraim to receive them.
“It was the spiritual argument was how to bring Moshiach,” he said. “Menashe was Sur Mera – refraining from evil, and Ephraim was Vaseh Tov – doing Good Deeds. The decision was to focus on Ephraim – doing good!”
The Zlotchover Rebbe concluded, “this is the Derech of the Baal Shem Tov and Chabad to do Vaseh Tov and Bring Moshiach!”
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My father’s name was Zalman Zlotchover his father was Zeev Wolf Zlotchover who was from Tsernocovitz in the Carpathians. Could there be any relationship