From Kerestir to Liska: For those Traveling to Kerestir for the Yahrtzeit of Rav Shayla, ensure your Kvitel arrives at the right destination!!

“Rebbe, Yidden come to me with their Kvitlich and requests…am I worthy of blessing them? Do I know what to say to them? I only accept the kvitlich in the merit of the Rebbe….I beseech the Rebbe to please intercede in shomayim on their behalf so they should merit a yeshoua!”

These are the pure and heartfelt words with which Rav Shayla Keristerer ZY’A implored with his pure heart at the holy tziyon of his holy rebbe in Liska as he presented the countless kvitlich he received from Yidden across Hungary who sent them asking him to daven on their behalf.

Rav Shayla kept all the kvitlich in his private room, called “the holtz kamer,” which was organized according to the level of the request; Rav Shayla kept the very difficult kvitlich in a special purse.

During the entire fifty years that Rav Shayla was rebbe, he would travel each and every Erev Rosh Chodesh to go every night on the eve of Rosh Chodesh to the tziyon of his rebbe, Rav Tzvi Hirsch M’Liska, to whom he was attached and connected with every fiber his soul taking along with him the bag of kvitlich that Yidden brought to him throughout the month. If a particularly difficult kvitlich lwould arrive during the month Rav Shaya’a would immediately travel to Liska so that he could read the Kvittel without delay. .

Arriving in Liska, he used to stop at the house of one of the residents in the city and arranged envelopes with the “pidyonim” that he received with the kvitlich and instructed that they be delivered to the children and grandchildren of his Rebbe. An exact name was written on each envelope. Then he went over to the home of the Tal Chaim of Liska (successor of Rav Tzvi Hersh of Liska, author of Ach Pri Tevuah) where he presented his personal Kvittel and then proceeded to the OHEL of his Rebbe. .

Arriving at the Ohel he lit a candle and emptied the bag with the Kvitlich, began saying Tehilim and then took out the special purse where he put the Kvitlach containing the most difficult “cases” where he personally read each and every Kvittel by the tziyon pleading to Hashen that in the merit of his rebbe Rav Rzvy Hersh of Liska that the “yiddisha Kinder” may the Jewish children and all their requests be fulfilled.

There as he spoke at the tziyon he said in the Yiddish language as one would speak to his rebbe in his lifetime: Rebbe, yidden come to me with their requests, yet can I bless them? Do I know what to say to them? I only accpet them in the merit of the rebbi, therefore Rebbe please forgive me and pray that they appeals be granted!” !!”

In fact every year on the 14th of Menachem Av, at the yahrtzeit of his rebbe, Rav Shayla would travel to Liska and after davening at the tziyon would participate at the Tish in honor of the Hillula conducted by the Tal Chaim of Liska and later with his son, the Sharei Hayosher of Liska and also participate in the expenses of the Seudas Hillula!.

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Yiddish Kinder, do not miss this opportunity!

You are looking for a yeshua like you did during the lifetime of Rav Shayla

Make sure to bring your tziyon in Liska.

Remember what Rav Tzvi Hersh of Liska, promised before his petiriah::

Whoever prays at my kever will be helped by me, even more so when I was still in this world. adding I will be more helpful in my socks than in my shoes”

The tziyon of Rav Tzvi Hersh of Liska is located 10 minutes by car from Kerestir and open 24 hours a day. A Hachnosos Orchim was recently inaugurated literally adjacent to the OHEL with a large parking lot that can accommodate buses and cars. For those that want to see the remnants of the Shul built by Rav Tzvi Hersh of Liska (with the original mizrach vant” still standing, it is located 1 minute by car at Kossuth Lajos út 15, Olaszliszka 3933 Hungary.