my rosh yeshiva says often that the sign of a true kannoi vs. a hot-head, is how they treat individual people and how they conduct themselves in their personal lives. He gave the example of rav amram blau, who he met personally. He said that rav blau was the sweetest, kindest person when you spoke with him. He would bring in homeless, mentally disturbed individuals into his home; feed them, wash them, and give them fresh clothing. He had a ton of ahavas yisroel, which shows that his kana’us was leshem shomayim. The same thing applies to the satmar rov; he was known to dispense huge amounts of tzedaka, even to people who were his enemies. Once a secular journalist who wrote scathing articles about the rebbe fell on hard times. Of course, his fellow secularists didn’t want to help him, and he heard that the rebbe helps every kind of Jew. He came, sheepishly, and was grateful for the rebbe’s help, but asked him; do you know who I am? The rebbe said he knows, but you’re a child of avrohom yitzchok and yaakov!
