By Rabbi Nissan Telushkin for COLlive and Hasidic Archives
In Minsk, I knew a Chabad Chasid, Aaron Lebedever, who prayed in the Lubavitcher shtiebel and fasted regularly.
On one such occasion, I asked him why he was fasting that day.
He told me that he had seen someone acting wrongly, and despite his attempts to interfere, he had failed.
“Surely it is my fault,” he said, “for, as the sages say, had I spoken with the proper reverence for G-d, my words would have been heard.”
He continued, “Had I loved that person with all of my heart and spoken with sincerity, my words would have surely entered his heart.
“This is the reason I am pained, and this is the reason I am fasting,” the Chasid explained.
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