In the days of the Gaon Rabbi Moshe Tzvi zt"l, Av Beit Din in the city of Soren (died in 1955). Once a respected merchant from the city of Brody came to the Rabbi and expressed his grief with tears for a third, with the following story:
"I am one of the veteran merchants in the city of Brody in Galicia, and I have commercial relations with the merchants in Russia, among them a respected merchant from the city of Balata named Rabbi Yitzchak, who negotiated with me several times, and remained in debt to me a thousand rubles, and gave me a promissory note for this sum, in the manner of the promissory notes. A short time ago I had to send him a list of goods for sale, I prepared the list and put it in a special envelope to send to the merchant Rabbi Yitzchak of Balta along with his accounts. But the next day my servant made a mistake, and instead of the list he sent the merchant a promissory note for a thousand rubles. When I sensed the fateful mistake the next day, I sent him an urgent letter and pointed him out of the mistake, and sent him the list and his requests to return the promissory note to me. A few weeks have passed and there is no voice, no answer, no attention. I wrote to him again, and here I got a reply from him saying, "There were never any things," he never gave me any promissory note, and not only that, but he complains and gets angry that I suspect him of what he doesn't have. And behold, Rabbeinu! The sum of the bill is very large, and I cannot bear such a large loss without going bankrupt. Now I turn in my distress to the honor of our Rabbi, that He may correct me with good counsel, and to save the oppressed from the hand of his oppressor."
Rabbi Moshe Tzvi listened attentively to the bitterness of his conversation and the request of the merchant from Brody, and said to him:
"In about a month, with God's help, I will be in the city of Balta, you will also come there in the same period of time, and the good Lord will give me His counsel to save you." The city of Balata was then subordinate to the Gaon, Av Beit Din of Masoran, and obeyed his discipline and orders. After about a month, Rabbi Moshe Tzvi traveled to Balta, where the merchant from Brody met with him and presented him with the statement of claim against the merchant from Balta. The merchant, Rabbi Yitzchak of Balta, was summoned to appear before Rabbi Moshe Tzvi and his court to answer the statement of claim. He came to the court, and the two merchants, began to settle their claims. The merchant from Brody claims that he was in possession of a promissory note belonging to the merchant Rabbi Yitzchak of Balata, and that the promissory note was returned by mistake before it was repaid. And the merchant screamed like a crocodile: "None of these things ever happened!" and denied the whole claim.
After Rabbi Moshe Tzvi and his court heard the arguments of the parties, the parties and the entire audience were taken out of the courtroom for consultation, after a comprehensive explanation by Rabbi Moshe Beit Din to the two judges, the ruling was made public: "The merchant Rabbi Yitzchak of Balata must immediately repay the plaintiff the sum of one thousand rubles that he owes him according to Torah law."
The merchant from Bulta, who was found liable for the law, lashed out at the rabbi, the father, the beit din, and the members of his beit din for the "wrongdoing" they caused him. He declared that he would not comply with the judgment that he gave out of mere speculation, without a halakhic basis, and that even from the point of view of reality, the plaintiff's claim has no basis. Rabbi Moshe Tzvi answered and said angrily: "You still dare to hurl things at the Beit Din, so now I will reveal your disgrace to the public, and I will give you an example: the shtar that was received by mistake in a letter sent to you from the merchant from Brody, was received by mail on Friday night before Kiddush, and you burned the shtar with the letter and the envelope on Friday night, with the same Shabbat candles that your wife lit and blessed in honor of Shabbat Kadesh."
But when the merchant heard the words coming out of the rabbi's mouth, his grip trembled, and he could not speak anything, and he fell helplessly to the ground, fell and fainted. After he was awakened from his fainting, the rabbi turned to him and said to him: "You see that there is an eye that sees, even if a man hides himself in secrets and does his hasty act. Now please send to your house to bring the sum of 1,000 rubles, in order to return the theft to its owners, and you will receive repentance for your actions, and I will not hesitate to pray for you to the good God to atone for your transgression and forgive your transgression and not to perish."
The merchant was not late to carry out the rabbi's ruling, while confessing that the rabbi was righteous and righteous, and that he prostrated himself before the rabbi with a request for forgiveness and forgiveness, and that he was willing to accept ascetics and afflictions to atone for his sin. Then the rabbi turned to the large crowd that had gathered there and said: "Of course each of you is thinking in your heart, because some angel from heaven came and revealed to me a secret, this is what the merchant Rabbi Yitzchak did with that bill in private rooms. But I am ready to show you also this angel who deciphered secrets, and thanks to him I have judged the truth of the truth." As he spoke, he opened the door of the room facing the courtroom, took out a boy of about ten years old and said: "This is the little 'angel' who speaks to me, through whom I have discovered this mystery."
