והיה לכם לציצית וראיתם אותם (שלח טו:לט)

The holy Rizhiner Rebbe zt’’l used to put tzitzis on his children from one-month old. Once, his young baby R’ Duvid Moshe (later known as the Tchorkover Rebbe) was lying in his crib crying profusely, and his mother couldn’t console him whatever she tried.  The Rebbetzin consulted her husband, the Rizhiner, about how she could calm the child.  The holy Rizhiner smiled and said, “It was probably forgotten to put on tzitzis for the child.” And so it was. The Rebbetzin put on tzitzis onto the baby, and he stopped crying.  From then on, his brothers  nicknamed him “The Tzitzis Yid.”

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