The author of Chesed L’Avraham, Rav Azulai, asked Rebbe Elimelech after they had already entered the higher worlds, “How is it that I authored ten sefarim and merited that they are even studied in the heavens, but at the mere mention of the name of the Rebbe Reb Elimelech, there is a great tumult in the heavens? What did you do to merit this?”
Rebbe Elimelech answered, “Every erev Shabbos, my household was full of such awe that even the maids would fall down crying and begging each other for forgiveness saying, ‘Forgive me if I offended you all week long!’ They would cry and forgive one another as people do on erev Yom Kippur. This great feeling of awe emanated from me because of my awe of the approaching holy Shabbos day.” (Ohel Elimelech 197)
