‘See How Great Is the Power of Tzaddikim to Save Others!’

Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda Halberstam zatzal, the Sanz-Klausenburg Rebbe, related he once requested of Moshe Dayan that he allow Jews into Me’arat Hamachpelah. The rasha, of course, asked what he would get in return.

The Rebbe answered: I will intervene with Mashiach that he allow you to be a street sweeper by The Dung Gate.

(I don’t know how the conversation ended.)

Wow! That womanizing phony military idol promoted to street sweeper in Jerusalem?! I wouldn’t dare promise to even suggest such a lofty position.

By the way, Rabbi Halberstam cleverly referred to that phony war hero in Yiddish as “the blind Dayan”, referencing the pirate’s eye patch and his taking bribes:

כל דיין שלוקח שוחד ומטה את הדין אינו מת מן הזקנה עד שעיניו כהות, שנאמר ושוחד לא תקח כי השוחד יעור פקחים וגו’.