Many people would frequent R. Nachum Ber’nu (Sadagur), though he died when the Old Sadagurer was still alive. 

One Rosh Hashanah eve, a Jewish man from the area surrounding Sadagora visited R. Ber and gave him a kvitel. a Jew from the vicinity paid him a visit on Rosh Hashana eve, crying heavily, and gave him a kvitel (petitionary note). 

What’s the issue?

He was celebrating with the Sadagurer when the Sadagurer instructed him, suddenly, to return home, still before Rosh Hashanah. He asked Rabbi Nachum Ber for advice and wondered if he could ask the Rebbe to let him stay for the holiday. 

R. Nachum Ber examined the kvitel and told the hasid, “I don’t see anything in the kvitel [to be concerned with], but if the holy Rebbe instructed you to return, you should follow his command.” The hasid returned home and learned that his child had suddenly become very ill and died several hours before he arrived.

When Nachum Ber later heard what happened, he became incensed and declared, “If I was capable of making such a significant oversight, I will no longer accept kvitels.”

Y.F.

Nachum Ber Hamburger

(Boyaner Hasid)