#85: Is Health the Most Important Thing?

A Hasidic story about Sukkot

Gimme Some Torah #85

This is a story told about R. Leibele the Hasid. The source is Itturei Torah, by Rabbi Aharon Grinberg, Volume 7, p. 71 at the bottom of the page.

Sukkot that year in the Pale of Settlement of was cold and windy. R. Leibele was an older man, and his wife did not want him to sleep in the Sukkah as the most pious Jews do.

“You’re old an…