אות - קמט

Once he said: from whoever I take and receive money and the like — I give to them. For in what I receive — I give. (And this is the matter explained in the story of the sixth day of the Seven Beggars — where one boasts about the wondrous power that he has in his hand — see there.)

The story of the third and fourth days he told on holy Shabbas eve as mentioned above. And at that time his grandson the child was lying ill (299), and he had great pain from this. For his illness was very heavy upon him. In particular his righteous daughter Madam Adil, may she live, the mother of the aforementioned child, had great anguish in the upbringing of her children, may the Merciful One protect her (300). May Hashem guard her from henceforth.

And he o.b.m. entered on holy Shabbas eve and sat at the table in pain and did not linger at this meal at all. And immediately we said Grace After Meals before the world began to enter to him as was always their custom. Afterward after Grace After Meals he remained sitting at his holy table. And he opened his holy, pure, and awesome mouth, and said then a wonderful and awesome discourse that contained holy Torah, as was always his way in most of his holy discourses. And the entire discourse was related to his great pain that he had. And it seems to me he spoke then about the matter of the heart that is pursued etc. (301).

And afterward within that discourse he answered and said: Where are we in the story? And immediately we were startled and I answered him in rush, in awe and fear, that we stand in the third day. And immediately he answered and said: On the third day that couple went back and remembered how they were taken etc. (as printed there). And he told the entire story of the third day, and there is explained a little something from what he told previously. And after he concluded the story of the third day and joy was made there etc. — he then said in these words: "Zey hobn ah hilulah gitan." And afterward immediately he told the story of the fourth day, and immediately when he concluded it, he immediately left the table with haste.

And because I was very occupied in my mind to review the two awesome stories of the third and fourth days, and immediately reviewed them with the people who were there so as not to forget a single word from them — because of this I forgot the entire aforementioned holy discourse that he spoke previously. Alas for what is lost (Sanhedrin 111a). Praise and glory to the living G-d for what remained to us — that we merited to remember and record these stories. For even according to the little flicker within my heart, I have no vessels of speech and writing to speak of the wondrous, lofty sublimeness of their virtue.