The Weight of Diamonds

Sometime during the winter of 5752, the writer Reb Tzvi Meir Shteimentz took upon himself a new shlichus. Every Sunday, as the line for receiving a dollar from the Rebbe stretched down Eastern Parkway, with people waiting for hours, he would approach people and deliver short classes, in Hebrew and English, on Yidishkeit.

In one case, after delivering a talk on the importance of tefilin, his work bore fruit and a few of his listeners ordered a new pair.

On Purim Koton he sent in a report of the incident to the Rebbe, and ended off with an apology for bothering the Rebbe.

“Bothering me?!” the Rebbe responded in his handwriting.

“The parable is well-known, that the weight of diamonds is not a bother, rather a pleasure.”

(Techayeinu issue 9)