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Approbation from R. Yehuda Arye, son of Eliezer
(Finkelshteyn), for Aaron-Shmuel Kneler's book
Minchat Marcheset.
while Aaron-Shmuel managed to visit the Land
of Israel twice at a time when its roads were filled
with danger to life an.d limb. The author describes
these visits: "All kinds of mishaps from
fearful enemies threatened me as I once went
from the home of my father to the Holy Land,
yet it was considered worthwhile being in the
Land of Israel for all of the Shalosh Regolim
(the three festivals)."
R. Aaron-Shmuel continues to write about
"many reasons" and about troubles, but he does
not describe them. He writes about his second
trip to the Land of Israel:
I visited a number of righteous men and great
sages on account of a certain great and terrible
reason.
And he said that he told one of them,
how I was obligated to travel to Erqz Yisroel because
of a vow I made during a difficult time due to
various circumstances, and how I did not have
enough money to cover the cost.
CHARACTERS AND PERSONALITIES
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His wanderings and, even more, his two trips
to Eretz Yisroel evidently influenced him to speak
out and sermonize about Chibat Tsiyon ("Love of
Zion", an early Zionist movement begun in Russia
at the time). He says in his preface,
I made my heart speak out and sermonize on
how terrible the corruption was and the extreme
want dragging me down. Only this way can we
rebuild the House of God! Only thus can we ever
become a voice sounding the shofar in the midst of
a desert and restore the ways of God through collective
effort; by bringing back the light of learning to
Jerusalem, as I enter the love of Jerusalem into my
heart and into the hearts of all Israel.
There is no doubt at all that he was plagued
by troubles and by poverty. Moreover, his countless
trips as preacher did not improve his economic
situation. Therefore, he began to earn a
living by teaching He writes in his book that he
had no other income than what he earned by
working in schools with his pupils. Neither did
this improve his lot too much.
It seems that Aaron-Shmuel was not only a
preacher, but also a magid meyshorim [a righteous
preacherlone who, above all, did not seek
rewards. He tells in one place in his book about
[Moyshe] Alshich, "From whose holy and faithful
seas I had the privilege to drink, and to learn
them in the company of community." Elsewhere
he says, "I would teach 100 people every day."
Neither can it be doubted that Aaron-
Shmuel was a Chasid. He injects into every
sermon quotations from great Chasidim and
rebbes. He also tells us about contact with
many illustrious personalities, such as the Righteous
Master, a holy and pure soul, a miracle
performer of our generation by the name of R.
Avrom, the magid of Trisk: our pure and holy
rabbi (our rebbe), Yehuda Leyb Eiger from
Lublin; our pure and holy master, a member of
Tiferet Israel. R. Dovid Moyshe Sh'lita ("He
should live for many more years, amen."], the
rabbi from Tshortkov; the master of the Torah,
the great man of light, piety and abstinence,
our rebbe, the tzadik (righteous) HaCohen. of
Lublin.
In another place he says that he wrote another
book, Leket Hashkacha, which remained in manuscript
form.