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He sent a messenger to the Rabbi—who was none other than the Baal Shem Tov—to see if he would come see them or if they should go to him.
The response was that “if he wishes to see me he should come here.”
When my father came into the Baal Shem Tov’s house, he walked him over to a window and gave him a small eye glass. He then instructed him to look through it and relate what he was seeing.
My father followed the instructions and began to say how he sees himself flying out of the city, over rivers and lakes.
He continued his virtual tour and said that now he was passing over the city of Kiev and then on to the outskirts of Homil where he lived. Entering the city, he closed in on his property and saw the gardens and porches that surrounded his home.
He then peered through the metal gates that surrounded his estate and saw the servants and attendees scurrying about, to and fro. He then overheard one servant tell the other that the mistress had just given birth to a boy.
At that point he could see no longer and he ‘returned’ to the Baal Shem Tov’s home and heard him say, “in a few days a messenger will arrive with the news of the birth of your son.”
“Sure enough that is exactly what happened, and here I am—I am that son,” concluded the Poritz to the amazed crowd.
When I heard that the Rebbe had redirected the fire with his gaze, I thought that most certainly this was the same miracle worker. Therefore I asked him if he was still alive and he replied that he was the student of his student.
“This meeting was very pleasing to me indeed,” he finished.
Based on Shmuos V’sipurim vol. 2 p. 139; reprinted from Derher
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