There was a certain woman who would come to the Bnei Yissochor from time to time to bemoan her plight in life and ask for his bracha. He would always give her a warm blessing. After his petirah, the woman began to go to the Tzemach Tzadik, Rav Menachem Mendel of Vizhnitz zt”l.
When she came to the Tzemach Tzadik for the first time and handed over her kvitel and pidyon, the Rebbe gave her his blessings. She then said to him, “That’s not how my old Rebbe did it...”
The Tzemach Tzadik asked what she meant and she said, “My old Rebbe would write down whatever I asked for in his notebook...It is known that he had two brains. That is how he was able to write chidushei Torah while he simultaneously accepted kivtlach and listened to requests for brachos. And I knew that his blessings would always be fulfilled.”
She related that another woman once came to him and told him all her problems. As she spoke, he continued writing his chidushei Torah, and she thought that he wasn’t listening to her. This caused her to start crying and she asked, “Why doesn’t the Rebbe want to help me?”
He told her, “I heard everything you said. If you want, I can repeat every word you said to me over the past 10 years back to you.”
