Hasidut untuk Yesaya 8:6

I heard from Rabbi Mordechai Yosef’s own mouth that when he decided to travel to study with Rabbi Simha Bunem, he prepared his heart and soul in order to be truly worthy of receiving the true secrets of the Torah. To do this, he immersed himself with all the books of Kabbalah in his local house of study, until he was thoroughly versed in their teachings. He was imbibed with God’s Torah, full with the Bible, Mishnah, Gemara, Halacha, Midrash, and the holy Zohar. He knew the entire Mishnah by heart. When he first met Rabbi Simha Bunem, he said to Rabbi Mordechai Yosef jokingly, “come let us stand back to back and see who is taller.”. Then Rabbi Simha Bunem laid his hands upon him and said, “at present, I am bigger than you. Yet you are still young, and with the yoke of years, you will grow.” And of course, he was not talking about physical size. It is known that Rabbi Simha Bunem was a great strapping man, both in size and in Torah knowledge, and Rabbi Mordechai Yosef, though great in Torah, was of a small, slight physique. I heard this story from his holy mouth. My grandfather also told how Rabbi Simha Bunem compared him to the Mei HaShiloach, the spring of Shiloah which flows from under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem down into the City of David. “Flowing slowly,” (Yeshayahu, 8:6) yet reaching down to the greatest depths. This is why his Torah commentary is called the, “Mei HaShiloach.”