Before passing away, the renowned chossid R. Yaakov Mordechai Bezpalov said, “For 30 years I slept on a chair! To put on tefillin once is more precious than sleeping 30 years on a chair. ”⁴⁷
Chassidim com mented: to experience the preciousness of tefillin in such a manner, one must first sleep on a chair 30 years.
47. Though he maintained a regime of self-denial to “break” himself, at the end of his life he
As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 413-414, no. 50