The Bohusher recounted the saying of the Ruzhiner: “A rebbish family is compared to an apple tree. The rebbe is the tree, the children are the branches, and the grandchildren are the apples. In the event that the apple is not good, ‘the world’ will assert that the tree is no good. Therefore, I implore you, children! Behave yourselves so that they won’t declare that the apple tree is unsatisfactory.”

 

Y.F.

Gedalya Schwartz