A Story For Melaveh Malka: The Rebbe's Sefer Torah

Rebbe Zalengold, Rebbe's emissary in a congregation in Minnesota, wrote a book about his experience there, and he wrote about how at a one febrengen that he had visited the Rebbe for in the 1970s, the Rebbe suddenly called him over and asked him to bring a piece of cake to a young woman with special needs in St. Paul.

The woman's family were members of a conservative temple called the Temple of Aaron.

And Rebbe asked him if he could bring this piece of cake to this young woman.

She had special needs.

And Rabbi Zalengold had no connection at all to this woman and to her family.

And he was surprised that Rebbe gave him this instruction and what it meant.

So when he came back, he informed the family that the Rebbe sent a piece of cake for her.

And the mother called Rebbe Zalengold a few days later, and she said that very frantically, she came to him and she said, I don't know what to do, but my daughter refuses to eat the cake.

She said, this cake is from a holy man, and I'm scared to eat it, so I don't know what we're supposed to do over here.

My daughter doesn't want, the Rebbe sent this cake special for her, but she doesn't want to eat it.

What should we do? So he was island gold, didn't think too much, and he said, I'll ask the Rebbe what to do.

And as soon as he said that, though, he was like, I should bother the Rebbe about the cake he sent to this girl.

Do I really need to bother him? But The Rebbe responded.

A Rebbe said she should hold it with a glove.

Now, the family had already asked the psychiatrist for different ideas, and the psychiatrist gave different ideas about my work, and nothing worked.

But the Rebbe's advice immediately did work.

Being able to relate to each person according to who they are and where they are.

This woman, for reasons known to the Rebbe, needed to have this cake.

The Rebbe knew not only to send the cake to her, but also to tell her how she, in her condition with special needs, not being able to appreciate what's going on exactly, be able to receive this gift and to enjoy it.

There is, throughout generations of chassidim and rabbis, there are many, many stories about how a rabbi is able to know exactly what each person needs according to who they are.