Once a Chassid came to his rabbi. "Rabbi! Half a month of Elul has passed, and I feel empty...I must see the prophet Elijah, only if I get to see the light of his face will I feel renewed!" The Rav said to him: If there is no choice, I will guide you exactly what needs to be done in order to see the prophet Elijah... Rosh Hashanah is coming soon, prepare yourself for a four-day journey in the forest. Take all the necessary equipment with you... Food for the road, food for the holiday, signs for Rosh Hashanah, pots, mattresses, appropriate clothing, firewood, etc. When you enter the forest, you will start walking on a path that turns west, and you will walk for four days in a row until you reach a hut with a green roof. You will spend Rosh Hashanah there, and you will get to see the prophet Elijah!
Well, the Chassid obeys the Rabbi, he successfully crosses the forest with all the equipment on his back, until on the eve of Rosh Hashanah he arrives at the hut with the green roof. He knocks on the door, and a woman, a widow, opens it, and in the house there are 6 hungry children lying on the floor, crying for a loaf of bread. The Jew asks to be a guest on Rosh Hashanah. And the widow sobs: "With joy, but there is no food..." The Jew does not hesitate: he takes out all the delicacies of the world that he has prepared, and tells her that she has nothing to worry about, that he is organized, that there are meals and that there are signs, and that no one in this house will be left hungry... Well, the eve of Rosh Hashanah arrives, the Jew goes to pray, he directs his heart with great excitement... After all, he does not know when the prophet Elijah will surprise him... But Gornisht. Thus he spent the entire Rosh Hashanah in anticipation, but he did not get to see his face. At the end of the holiday, he thanked the widow, and of course she thanked him twice, and he set out to go back on his way.
He wanted to enter the Rebbe, but it was not possible, until he entered at the end of Yom Kippur. The Rav said to him: "Didn't you merit to see the prophet Elijah?! Well, listen to my voice, and this time you will surely see him... Go to the same hut for the holiday of Sukkot, it will be prepared with all the holiday meals, with a large tent of streams, you will spend the entire holiday of Sukkot there, and I am sure that you will merit to see the glow of its face..." On the eve of Sukkot, the Chassid arrived at the hut, and he heard the widow's children crying... "Mom, we have nothing to eat, how can we spend Sukkot like this...?" Their mother answered them: "Don't worry, my dear ones, even on the eve of Rosh Hashanah they cried, and you saw the salvation of God who sent us the prophet Elijah... This festival as well, in Gaza, will come the prophet Elijah..." "Do not let your hearts be satisfied" [20:3]. (We must praise).
