Rav Moshe Horowitz zt"l
הרב משה בן אליעזר הורוויץ זצ"ל
Sivan 10 , 5654
Stories of Rav Moshe Horowitz zt"l
The Sanz Klausenberger Rebbe related how when Rav Moshe of Rozhvadov was Bar Mitzvah - he donned both Tallis and Tefillin on the same day, because on the day he was Bar Mitzvah he wore tefillin for the first time and also, he went under the chuppah and got married on that say as well!
While under the chuppah, he was very weak from fasting the entire day in addition to his weak sickly and poor constitution. Just then he felt someone pushing down hard on his head. He looked up and saw and recognized that it was the Ropshitzer Rav who had placed his hands down on him and was blessing him with semicha and beracha. Rav Moshe pretended not to notice and made himself ignore the pain and discomfort. Later, when he told his father - and his father approved of his son’s self control.
Now, remarked the Klausenberger Rebbe, this story illustrates the wondrous lofty spiritual levels about the young thirteen-year-old Rav Moshe, namely that: he merited to see the neshama of the holy Ropshitzer after he had passed away and also to recognize him, that he was able to be moved and touched by this beracha and not to become frightened! (DivreiTorahGilyon TavYud)
