Editing The Maggid of Mezritch (section)

== Life History ==
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Rabbi DovBer was born to R' Avraham and Chava in the town of Lukatch near Rovno, Ukraine. There is no Chabad tradition regarding his birth date.

His father was a descendant of the Tanna Rabbi Yochanan HaSandlar and earned a meager living as a melamed (teacher). On the advice of the town's rav, he sent his brilliant son, DovBer, to study in Lvov at the yeshiva of Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua (author of Pnei Yehoshua).

Rabbi DovBer married (in his first marriage) Rebbetzin Keila, and after his marriage served like his father as a melamed in Mezritch. Simultaneously, he began studying [[Kabbalah]]. Later, he served as a maggid (preacher) in Turchin, and subsequently in Koritz and Dubna. The Maggid lived in a small, dilapidated house and suffered severely from leg ailments. For many years after their marriage, they remained childless, and when he was thirty-six years old, his wife suggested that he divorce her so he could marry someone else who could bear him children, but the Maggid rejected her suggestion.

When [[the Baal Shem Tov]] visited the Pnei Yehoshua, he told him to inform the Maggid that he wouldn't be able to heal his legs until he came to him. On his teacher's advice, he decided to travel to Mezhibuzh, the Baal Shem Tov's town, where he became a [[chassid]] and devoted disciple. The Baal Shem Tov promised the Maggid that he would have a great and renowned son. In 5501, his son R' Avraham "the Malach" (the Angel) was born to him and his wife.