The custom in the court of Chernobyl was that a couple had two separate bedrooms. When R. Shalom of Prohobisht [d.1802] made a match and became a son-in-law of the Chernobyler, he instituted the innovation that he and his wife slept in the same room. This bothered the Chernobyler very much and he was determined to see how the couple behaved. During the first day of selihot [the period leading up to the High Holidays] he entered the room and as soon as he opened the door he fainted. (What he saw there is connected with another tale about R. Shalom that has not yet been able to recorded.) When they revived him he screamed: “Woe, woe! If so then I must move someplace else. So he left ___?___ and went to Chernobyl and founded a court there.
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Yirmiyahu Katz
