When the yoma d’pagra arrived, Rav Zushe went to the Rebbitzen and asked her to cook him a specific dish. She said that she needed to go out and buy certain ingredients, and asked him to watch her child, who was sleeping in his cradle.
Rav Zushe sat down next to the cradle with the sefer of the Shlah Hakadosh. As he was learning, the baby woke up and began to cry. Rav Zushe was about to close the sefer to rock the cradle when the Shlah Hakadosh suddenly appeared to him and said, “Keep learning my sefer and I will rock the baby.”
The Sanzer Rov said, “If the Shlah Hakadosh wanted to rock the cradle so that Rav Zushe should keep learning, the fact that chosson descends from him is sufficient yichus for me.”
Risking His Life for Hashem:
The Gemara states that anyone who says that Hashem is a vatran (foregoing), foregoes his life. Sefer Sifsei Tzadikim quotes Rav Zushe as explaining that if one wants to ask Hashem to forego his aveiros, he has to be willing to forego his own needs in life in order to sacrifice himself for Hashem Yisborach.
May the memory of the tzadik be a blessing for Klal Yisroel.