Past Lives

Rav Chaim Meir, the Imrei Chaim of Vizhnitz, was very close with his uncle, the Ateres Yeshua of Dzikov, and would often recount stories and teachings from his uncle:

The Ateres Yeshua once observed two people having the following conversation. One said to the other, “Why do you allow your son to play with such unwholesome friends?”

“Ah, it’s not so bad!” said the other. “Why are you making such a fuss and a big deal over nothing? He is just a little boy!”

The holy Dzikover turned to the astonished man and remarked, “How do you know that he is just a little boy? Maybe he is an eighty-year-old man who has come back to this world to rectify through tikkun whatever he ruined in a previous gilgul?”