??Sorry it took me so long to get around to posting this but here it is. Moishy- That story about the soap happened with R’ Scheinbers driver, R’ Asa Wittow. R’ Scheinberg asked specificly for Dial brand soap and he picked up a different soap which was also very good for the skin. My dira in yeshiva is right across the street from the Torah Or building. (R’ Scheinberg’s yeshiva) On the night R’ Scheinberg was nifter I got a call from a friend that, as is customary for all Roshei Yeshivos, they were bringing the ?? into the building, and there was a ??? in the building who needed a place to sleep for the night. There were plenty of extra beds in my dira so I got up, got dressed, made a bed and ran out to greet the ?? on the way into the building. I got there just as the chevra kadisha van pulled up and waited for them to carry him into the building. There was a small crowed there at the time, about 30 or 40 people all who were trying to grab hold of the bed the ?? was on to have the zechus of carrying him. R’ scheinberg wrote in his will “if you did not go to the mikva you can’t carry the ??” I hadn’t toveled so I didn’t touch but I watched them bring him into his office. I hung around the yeshiva for a while helping out with preperations for the levaya and was going to go back to my dira and go to sleep. I went back to the Rosh Yeshiva’s office one last time to see if there was anything going on, and just as I got there the door opened and people started going in and saying tehilim. I grabbed a tehilim and stood in the office for a while saying tehilim at the Rosh Yeshivas side. I was there the whole night and at times I was one of 3 people in the office saying tehilim! At about 4:00 I ran to Belz to go to the mikva so I would be able to carry the ?? out. I davened vasikin and at about 8:00 I carried him out to the van to go for the tahara. I was at the levaya and the whole night and day was an experience I will never forget. By the way if you watched the video that was posted by the article on the main page, you probably saw me in it.
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