The entire work [i.e. the divine service and life mission] of R. Raphael Bersheter, a disciple of R. Pinchas of Koretz, was to work on being truthful.
Once in the middle of the winter, in a great frost, a Jew knocked on his door to ask a favor.
R. Raphael asked “Who is at the door?” the Jew replied: “I, Velvel!”
R. Raphael dismissed him: “If you still consider yourself an ‘I’ you cannot enter my home.”
I.F.
Hirsh Lederman
Boyaner Hasid
