An amazing story told by Rav Wolfson

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Mon, Jun 24 2024, 12:04 am

I'm sharing this story because it's really incredible, and also because I wonder if others have heard this story and can perhaps furnish more details.

A few months ago, my husband had the opportunity to spend time with the tzaddik Rav Moshe Wolfson, zt"l, who was just taken from this world.
My husband came home and shared the following story that he heard from Rav Wolfson.

Rav Wolfson said, "I met someone who saw the Noam Elimelech." (that week was the yahrtzeit of the Noam Elimelech.)

Everyone in earshot, my husband included, was quite perplexed, as the Noam Elimelech was niftar almost 250 years ago.

He went on to explain that shortly after the war he met a yid in a shul in Williamsburg. (He gave the name of the shul, and the year this happened, but unfortunately, I can't remember these details. )
The Yid told him that he saw the Noam Elimelech.

He had been a young man living in Lizhensk, when the Nazis invaded his town. They for some reason were convinced that there was money or treasures buried in the graves. They ordered a group of Jews to exhume the bodies of certain Jewish graves in the cemetary. This man was part of this group who was forced to dig up the body of Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk. He said that when the body was brought up, he could see that it was completely fresh, as if it had been buried less than an hour earlier. That's how it came to be that he actually saw the face of the Noam Elimelech. The Nazis were so spooked by this that they told them to return the body to its burial spot.

Today we lost a rare tzadik and talmid chacham, and a man who saw someone who saw the Noam Elimelech.