Purim 5721

The Rebbe once related about Reb Hillel Paritsher.

We find written in Seforim that when crossing a bridge

you should go by foot not on a carriage, -this most

probably does not apply by today’s bridges- it’s

something to do with watching your health. He would

travel then with a carriage, approaching a bridge one time

he was sleeping but as the carriage got closer he awoke

from his sleep and saw where he was, got off of the

carriage and walked across.

Which at first glance this is not something which is a

Mitzvah Doraysah nor Mi’Dirabanun, its just to be careful

and it’s not like someone woke him up either, but rather

because it was his nature to live like it says in Seforim,

no matter what type of commandment, then custom

becomes nature, in his bod ...