Malachim’s Simchah
When a person is upbeat, that is a time when he can be certain that his tefillos will be especially answered.
When R’ Moshe Leib Sasiver was niftar, his son R’ Elazar Mendel proclaimed at the burial that the attended congregants should submit a kvitel to him right then and there, and that they would b’ezras Hashem see good results from it.
This surprised the audience. Why would the first thing the new Rebbe is suggesting after his father’s burial is to try and get a yeshuah? And why is this time mesugol to see a yeshuah?
He explained that the reason for this was because right then, there was great joy in Shamayim. His father, R’ Moshe Leib, was coming to Shamayim, and they were thrilled with that.
However, R’ Elazar Mendel explained why this was. “When they see R’ Moshe Leib coming to Shamayim, they will go to greet him and give him a proper kabbalas panim. When they see this, they surely will be asking, ‘Who’s replacing you? Your son or perhaps someone else?’
“The answer will be that I, R’ Elazar Mendel, will be the replacement. Upon their hearing, they definitely will laugh. So, we can assume that at this point they are laughing, and when they are laughing, it is definitely a time to get whatever is on a person’s mind.”
