Known for his Tzedakah
Monday, September 16th, 2013Click here for Hebrew text.
The Yahrzeit of Reb Mendele of Vizhnitz z‘l (1830-1884) is commemorated on the 29th of Tishrei. The following meise / hasidic tale appeared in Sefer HaHasidut, Meah Tzadikim, Raphael, Yitzchak, 1961, Tel Aviv. (Freely translated by Gabbai Seth Fishman.)
The Charity Commandment
Every Sunday (lit., day one of the days of the week), while it was still before the [morning] prayer [service], he was compelled to get two hundred silver roubles ready under his hand for charity. To distribute the charity, he used to keep a particular Shammos who went at times on an errand and distributed it within the city.
And everything was [decided] through permutations of the holy names so that the tzedakah would repair the brokenness at the level of its roots in the supernal source.