The Chozeh wished to honor his important guest, Rav Sholom Rokeach, and so he asked them to pour him a glass of wine. Rav Sholom had already begun his ascent and so among his ascetic practices he had self imposed upon himself was to refrain from drinking any intoxicating beverages. And so he lifted the cup up as the Chozeh had commanded but was in a quandary since he would not drink the wine. This resolved itself as soon as the wine glass shattered in his hands off its own accord. Seeing this, the Chozeh asked them to pour him a new cup of wine. When the performance repeated itself the Chozeh thundered in mock anger: “What are you trying to do? Do you mean to shatter all my glasses?” When Rav Sholom explained his geder and that he did not drink wine, the Chozeh let the matter alone.
The next day he honored Rav Sholom by calling him up to the Torah for the sixth aliyah, an honor accorded and reserved for VIPs and lofty leveled rabbonim. The assembled wondered aloud about such an honor and disctinction bestowed upon such a young guest. The Chozeh responded to the clamor and commotion with the retort: “Why are you all so surprised?, this yungerman will one day be a leader of thousands!” Off course his prediction came true.
The Chozeh once requested Rav Sholom to be the one to read the Megillah on Purim for all the assembled. Afterwards the Chozeh remarked upon the completion “I have heard the story of Purim many times before, but not the way this yungerman just told it! I have never heard the story told this way ever before!”
On another occasion Rav Sholom was squashed beneath the Chozeh’s tisch, the Chozeh whispered to him “One day they will all be squashing under your tisch!”
Another time the Chozeh remarked: “People travel to Rymanov (to the Rebbe Reb Menachem Mendel) seeking parnassah and livelihood, to Kozhnitz (to the Maggid Rav Yisroel Haupstein) they go seeking refuos and healing, to me they come for Chassidus, to you they shall come and by you they shall received all of these!”
