R. Mechele Prayes Only with Guardians of the Covenant

The Magid asked R’ Yeivi why he calls the local rabbis Yerava’am son of Nevat 

People came from Yampil¹ to R’ Yeivi² that he should give them [recommend] a Magid.³ He recommended R. Mechele Zlotchover. They appointed him but they stipulated that he cannot make his own minyan.

Later on, he did make his own minyan and the householders came to complain to R. Yeivi.

R. Yeivi summoned him and R. Mechele told him that he he could only pray with “guardians of the covenant.”⁴ Whereupon R. Yeivi and R. Mechele returned to Yampil and entered the synagogue. 

The cantor of the synagogue had – Heaven save us  –  a seminal discharge. Whereupon R. Yeivi told R. Mechele: I only see up until the Mikva, you see even after the Mikva.⁵

I.F.

Kinever Rebbe

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yampil,_Vinnytsia_Oblast:

   Yampil (Ukrainian: Ямпіль; Russian: Ямполь, Yampol; Romanian: Iampol) is a city located in Vinnytsia Oblast (province of central Ukraine). The city is the administrative center of the Yampil Raion (district).

2. R’ Rabbi Ya’akov Yosef of Ostroh (Polish: Ostróg), also known as Rav Yeivi, acronym for Ya’akov Yosef Ben Yehuda (1738-1791). See https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/jacob-joseph-ostrog.
3. A religious preacher.
4.  A reference/euphemism for people who guard their sexual purity.
5. I.e. R. Yeivi was able to sense that someone had a seminal discharge only before they immersed in the Mikva to purify themselves, whereas R. Mechele was able to sense that someone had a seminal discharge even after they immersed in the Mikva.