Remembering My Rebbi, Mattersdorfer Rav, Rav Shmuel Ehrenfeld, ztz’l

There is a story where a bachur in the yeshiva had torn shoes and the rebbe just got new shoes having rachmonus on him, he took off his own shoes and gave it to him and mekiyum what it says שלף איש נעלו ונתן לרעיהו. one takes his shoes off and gives it to his friend. This indicates his whole being as it says שמעון הצדיק ‘הוא’ היה אומר, he said it with his being.

The Chasan Sofer interprets Moshe Rabbenu’s answer to Yisro כי יהי’ להם דבר בא אלי, when they have a problem, they come to me and it does not say באים אלי in order to communicate his feelings how it touches his heart when the benei yisrael have a problem. He must personally act on it. We can say this on the rebbe ztz’l also.

Benephraim, I think you are making a mistake. The Mattersdorfer is the father of Rav Shmuel ztz’l, married Gittel Krausz who was his mother. He married his first cousin Rochel Ehrenfeld, the daughter of his father’s (Simcha Bunim Ehrenfeld) brother, Dovid Tzvi Erhrenfeld who was a son of the Chasan Sofer.

Benephraim, look at the above wikipedia reference.