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The founder of the Chabad movement, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, shared his house with his oldest married son and successor, Rabbi Dov Ber.
Rabbi Dov Ber was known for his unusual power of concentration. When he was engaged in study or prayer he was totally oblivious to everything around him.
On one occasion, when Rabbi Dov Ber was thus engrossed, his baby sleeping in a near-by cot fell out of his cradle and began to cry. So engrossed was Rabbi Dov Ber that he did not hear the baby’s cries.
The infant’s grandfather, Rabbi Schneur Zalman, who was in his study on the upper floor also engrossed in his studies, did hear the baby’s cries. He interrupted his studies, went downstairs, lifted the infant, soothed it and replaced it in its cradle. To all this, the infant’s father remained quite oblivious.
Subsequently, Rabbi Schneur Zalman admonished his son: “No matter how engrossed one may be in the most lofty occupation, one must never remain insensitive to the cry of a child.”
This story is transmitted to us from generation to generation for the lasting message which it conveys. In fact, it came to characterize one of the basic tenets of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement—to hearken to the cry of a child.
The “child” may be an infant in age, a minor or teenager, a Jewish boy or girl attending public school, or even an adult in years. We can not remain silent to their inner cries.
Adapted from a letter by the Rebbe.
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