Most of the following stories were passed down by the Chassid Rav Moshe Chaim Steinberg:
My first meeting with him was to see and meet up close the man whom many respected, while others held him to be a meshugener. I arrived on the East Side before Shacharis, wondering where to chap a minyan. No sooner had I entered the Bais Medrash than an elderly Yid came up to me and said to me straight away, “Go to such and such a Bais Medrash – there they are beginning to daven Shacharis.” This was none other than my first encounter with Reb Moshe New Yorker, and a clear example of his ability to “know” things, perhaps through ruach hakodesh, since I had never met him before, never spoken a word to him, and certainly not told him or anyone else that I was looking for a minyan and had not yet davened. I asked him how he knew I hadn’t yet davened, and he answered in his characteristic simplicity that “after davening you would look different – nuch davenen hot min an andere punim.”
