The Heilige Rizhiner “nebech” (sadly) was in prison. And there was no-one to give shelach manos (Purim gifts) and he didn’t have anything. And he was standing by the window of the prison, and he remembered how beautiful it was in Ruzhin, with all the thousands of Yidden (Jews), and he began crying a little bit. He said Ribono shel Olam, Master of the World, I give you my tears as shelach manos. And so I want to say, Ribono shel Olam sadly enough, shelach manos of tears he had already for so long. I want to bless Yidden that this time we should Ribono shel Olam, we want to give you our laughter for shelach manos.

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The Shelach Manos of Tears

Background

In 1838, Rabbi Yisroel of Ruzhin was accused of complicity in the death of two Jews accused of being informers and was imprisoned for two years by the Russian authorities. On his release he moved to Kishinev, then to Iasi and other places before finally settling in Sadigora, Bukovina (Carpathian Mountains) in 1842. There he re-established his court in all its glory.

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