Before Pesach, when every Jew cleans the house and carries outside all of the furniture, the holy rebbe, R. Meirel, himself would work with great effort until he was sweating.
One time he worked very hard before Pesach to take a large pot [?] (toptshan) through a window, for it wouldn’t fit through the door. But it was also very hard to get it through the window, for it was very big and the window too small, in keeping with the small rooms.
His gabbai asked him, “Dear rebbe, why do you have to work so hard to take it out?” But the holy rebbe did not respond.
They worked at this for a long time until they finally got it through the window.
Suddenly a messenger arrived from a shtetl with a pidyon contribution from a woman who was having a difficult childbirth. The holy tzaddik answered him immediately, “Go home, the child was born healthy at the moment that Meir got the pot through the window.”
And that was what had happened, just as the holy tzaddik had said.
When the messenger left, the holy rebbe said to the gabbai, “Just think what a fool you are. Meir worked with all his strength so that the child should come out of his mother’s womb without any problem and you, fool, wanted to give Meir advice that the child should be born with broken feet!”
See and understand that he did all simple work with deep intention for a great purpose with his holy good traits, and he saw and knew everything with his holy divine inspiration.
May his merit stand by us always in all matters, physical and spiritual.
Shivchei R. Meir
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