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When one goes to the Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL Kever beforw chatzot on Friday morning, one has to light 2 candles for his neshama to announce you are there, and then light a candle for every person you are davening for. One must also take something on themselves to do. He wrote in his zevuya (will – and a copy is on the wall next to his kever written in Yiddish and in English, that people have to take something upon themseves to do with yiddishkeit and not be bluffers.) He was nifter in Shevat 1953, and people came from all walks of life to get a bracha from him.
There is a Rav in London who told me the following story, 10 1/2 years ago. In 1950, when he was a young boy in the Yesodei Hatorah school, a levaya took place on Cazenove Rd in Stamford Hill of some great man, he can not remember the person’s name). It was winter and all the children of the school were brought to Cazenove Rd. to pay their respect to the nifter. It was a very big levaya and in Europe the levayas take place in the street. There were hundreds of man and there was a sea of black, the coats, suits and hats etc. A car stopped and waited a bit thinking that the crowd will pass quickly. There was one hesped after the other. The driver was impatient and wanted to ask the people to pass. The passenger was very compassionate after she had realized it was a funeral and said to her driver we must have respect for the deceased and the mourning family. This passenger was none other than the Queen Mother who then was The Queen Elizabeth I, who was in the official car (Rolls Royce) on the way to an official engagement. The Queen did not realize that Jewish funerals have quite a few hespedim and she was considerably delayed. The Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL approached The Queen and made the bracha for the Queen. He then gave his own bracha and benched her that she should have a long and healthy life with all her faculties, to serve her people and kingdom, and thanked her for her compassion in not disrupting the funeral. The bracha materialized, as the Queen Mother lived to be over 101 and was in great health until she passed away in 2002.
There are always many people at the Shotzer Rebbe’s Z’TL kever every single Friday morning davening, beseeching and crying and literally hundreds of candles are lit.
May the Shotzer Rebbe Z’TL be a meilitz yashor for all Klall Yisrael and may all our tefillot be answered le tova. Amen!