On one occasion, R. Zusha, the son of R. Yitzhak Meir and the grandson of the Rabbi of Apta, slept in the same room as his grandfather. In the middle of the night, the Rabbi of Apta woke up and began sighing and screaming: “Woe is to me! I am a sinner, I commit transgressions”, etc. The boy Zusha, who was 12 years old at the time, also woke up and heard his grandfather persistently accusing himself. Zusha then said, “Grandfather, I can attest that you are not a sinner.” The Rabbi of Apta asked him, “But doesn’t the verse state, ‘One witness shall not rise against a man for any iniquity’?” Zusha replied, “Yes, that is true, but only “for any iniquity” are two witnesses required. However, on no iniquity, one witness is also believed.”
Y.F.
Elazar Zohn
