The Woodcutter Who Converted

There was a story about a gentile woodcutter in the city of Prague who happened to be doing his work near the window of the room of the Noda B’Yehudah who was saying Tehillim with great fervor. The pesukim of Tehillim said with holy fire penetrated the heart of the woodcutter to the extent that he decided to convert.

Harav Menachem Mendel Shapiro, the Rav of Dragomiresti, offered an allusion from this passuk regarding this: “Vegercha asher bekerev machanecha – meichotev eitzecha...., and the convert that is among your camp – from your woodcutters.”