Editing Yehoshua Lein (section)

== In the Presence of the Frierdiker Rebbe ==
In 1920, he married his second wife, Rebbetzin Risha, daughter of the chossid R' Uri Yaffe.

Two years later in 1922, a fire broke out in Beshenkovitz that destroyed most of the town's houses, after which he wandered with his family to Nevel and lived with his family in his parents' home.

When he arrived in Nevel, the community members wanted to ask him halachic questions, but he refused to answer since his rabbinical ordination certificate had burned. When this reached the ears of the Rogatchover Gaon, he sent him a new "semicha l'rabbanus" certificate.

In the following years, he began serving as a shadar who traveled among Chabad communities throughout Russia collecting ma'amad funds for the Frierdiker Rebbe.