A Taste of the Garden of Eden - Rabbi Yirmiyahu Abramov

[Music] the great Hasidic leader the Alexander revi used to travel around and in his travels with his entourage of people Hassidim he used to come to remote communities to strengthen them and to give them more passion for their observance of tehran with what he once arrived at a village somewhere in europe and as was always the case the president of the community usually the most significant person in the community would have the great honor of hosting the Rebbe at his home and so it was he came to the home of the president a very god-fearing upright scholar of a Jew and he was there as his guests and everything proceeded fine and it was a beautiful atmosphere and after partaking after making the kaduche they washed hands that were going to partake of the challah the Rebbe made the broth ah the blessing on the challah and he took a bite and he gasped and the host jumped up and said what's wrong is something wrong with the challah and he gasped and he said this challah has the taste of heaven it has the taste of the Garden of Eden of GaN Eden what is there in this holler I must find out who made this holler so the husband turned to his wife and the wife said it is true I baked the challah so he said did you put something into this color she said no did you see but I must tell you the person who needed the dough who mixed the dough the flour and the water was a young orphan Jewish orphan girl who works by us as a an assistant in the house she lives with us she's a sad orphan and we give her this way promise Oh sustainer she needed the dough perhaps we'll call her and asked her if he if she put something into the color and they called the girl and she came in terrified or odd at being in the presence of this great rabbi and the rabbi looked at her with kind eyes and said tell me my child explained to me exactly how you made the feller and she said well I'll tell you my late mother who passed away not so long ago she is to make father but when she needed the doll she used to sing beautiful songs of the songs of Psalms from Tehillim and she used to sing these songs and Hum these songs and this is what accompanied her kneading of the down and I'd I when I make the fellow for my for the person who I would this lady who I work for so I too decided that it's a nice custom I'll do what my mother used to do and yeah I was kneading the dough and thinking of my late mother she left me an orphan at this young age and while I was doing this I have to confess rabbi that I started crying while singing these songs and kneading the dough and my tears dropped into the hollow dough and maybe they contaminated the dough and the Rebbe said by child your tears made this dough to have the taste of GaN Eden your tears enriched in this color I knew there was something special in this color because the the cry of an orphan is something that reaches and permeates the very heavens and you made these colors with the most magnificent taste of Grenada [Music] you [Applause]