R. Joshua Tomoshover used to visit the Dinover [Zevi Elimelekh Shapira (d. 1841)], the [author of the] Benei yesaskhar.
Once he visited the Dinover for Simhat Torah. In the middle of the circumambulations (hakafot) – in the middle of dancing – the Dinover kissed R. Joshua. “Young man,” he said to him. “Pray for me and I will turn you into a person of substance (kli)!
Indeed, that year, on the eighteenth of Tevet, [5]600 (1840), the Dinover passed away.
R. Joshua also visited the Mogielnicer [Hayim Meir Jehiel Shapira (d. 1849)] – a grandson of the Magid of Koznitz.
He then also visited R. Eliezer of Koznitz and later the elder Belzer and he also visited the [author of the] Divrei Hayim in Sanz.
I.F.
Tomoshover Rebbe
Rabbi M. Frisherman
