[Avodah] Gra on men taking care of babies

[Zev Sero]

R Joel Rich retells the story I linked to in my response.


> when all of a sudden, he heard his infant grandson, the future author
> of the Tzemach Tzedek

The identity of the baby is not known, but it was one of the Mitteler
Rebbe's children, and therefore was not the Tzemach Tzedek.


> crying in his cradle.

According to the received version s/he had fallen out.


> He then went into the adjoining room, where he found his son, the
> baby's father (known as the "middle Rebbe"), steeped in Torah study.

Actually father and baby were in the same room.  People didn't have that
many rooms in those days.  The young MR and his family lived in one room
in his parents' house.

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