Editing Rabbi Pinchas Hirschprung (section)

== A True Chassid ==
One of his students related:

One year, his wife became ill with a cancerous tumor. The doctors said the situation was critical and doubted if surgery would help. Rabbi Hirschprung was deeply heartbroken upon hearing this, and a severe change came over him. He changed from an active person to an exhausted, lifeless man. He stopped coming to the yeshiva and didn't speak with anyone there. The only thing he didn't neglect was the general lecture he gave, but even this lacked his usual enthusiasm.

One day I met his son, and during our conversation he said, "Do you know that my father is a great chassid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe!" When I didn't react, his son continued saying, you should know that not only is he a chassid, but he is also connected heart and soul with the Rebbe, and I don't know if you can find a greater chassid than him.

As proof, he told the following story: When my mother's health was in serious condition, my father's mood was terrible. It became so serious that we children sat and cried over both parents. Over our mother who lay in bed, and over our father, who sat beside her in depression.

One day I was alone at home with my parents when a letter from the Rebbe arrived in the mail. My father was sitting and learning, and when I told him a letter arrived from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, he got up, went to the kitchen to wash his hands, put on his hat and jacket, and then stood to read the Rebbe's letter.

I stood aside and watched. Suddenly he rushed to my mother's room and said: I just received a letter from the Rebbe. The Rebbe wrote the letter in Hebrew but I'm willing to translate it to Yiddish.

It was a letter from the Rebbe. At the end of the letter, the Rebbe added several handwritten lines: Regarding what you wrote about your wife - this is only the evil inclination's advice wanting to weaken you. Therefore don't pay attention to it, it's not true at all, and only the evil inclination's claim, and you and your wife will merit long days and good years.

Father stood next to mother, called her by name and said, thank God there is a Rebbe, the Rebbe said it will be good and there's nothing to worry about. In an instant, he changed drastically from one extreme to another in a 180-degree turn. And returned to being an active and lively person as before.

In the weeks that followed, until my mother's complete recovery - things were reversed. While the family was worried, it was impossible to talk to him about his wife's health condition. Even on the day of surgery, when they took her to the operating room he wasn't concerned, and didn't understand why his family was worried, after all the Rebbe said she was healthy. When the doctors said the tumor had stopped growing, he wasn't excited to the family's amazement, since he had no doubt otherwise.

His son concluded: Is there another chassid like him? Is there anyone more connected than he is?"
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