Emuna Daily

About a week ago in Israel, a Palestinian Arab was following a chassidish lady who was walking alone in Jerusalem for about 20 minutes, after which he disappeared. The woman was suspicious of him and immediately called in his description to the police, who were able to make the arrest and brought him in for questioning.  There, the Arab admitted that he was planning to stab the woman but couldn’t get close to her, since she had with her two big bullies one on her right side and one on her left side.  After realizing these bullies weren’t leaving her side, he gave up.

The police went back to the woman to confirm she was alone like she had told them. She confirmed she was alone, however, she said that the whole time the Arab was following her she kept repeating the passuk:

“מימיני מיכאל ומשמאלי גבריאל”

“to my right, Michael, to my left Gavriel”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ozyo7EbfH0

Chassidim in Lubavitch would customarily wear long jackets. One chassid, however, wore a short jacket when he was in Moscow on business, and changed into a long jacket when he returned home to Lubavitch.

Once, before entering into a private audience with the Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, the chassid deliberated: ‘Why should I wear my long jacket for my private audience with the Rebbe? The Rebbe knows who I am. Why try to fool him? I will be myself!’

Thus, the chassid entered the Rebbe’s study wearing a short jacket.

“Why are you wearing a short jacket?” the Rebbe asked.

The chassid was shocked. He explained honestly, “Rebbe, I did not want to fool you!”

“Fool me?” the Rebbe asked. “Until now I thought you were a chassid trying to fool the business world. Now I see you are a businessman trying to fool the chassidim.” ~ Heard from Rabbi Shloima Zarchi as quoted in Chicken Soup to Warm the Neshama