R Yehoshua Leib Diskin, ztl, said a shiur to his students, and his shamash always brought him a cup of tea during the shiur since he was very weak. R Diskin suffered from hypoglycemia, and the shamash always put a few heaping spoonfuls of sugar in the tea, in order to maintain R Diskins blood sugar. One day, the students saw that Rebbetzin Diskin was extremely agitated, and they asked her what was wrong. She told them that she found a container of salt next to the hot water kettle instead of the sugar, and she realized that the shamash had put salt instead of sugar into R Diskins tea. She was nervous about the affect on the Ravs heath, since he needed sugar at that time, and instead had received salt. The students told her that they hadnt detected any change in the Ravs face when he drank the tea, and obviously the tea had really been sweetened with sugar. Later, however, they found out that the salt had really been added to the tea, as the Rebbetzin had suspected. All the students were amazed that there was no discernible of sign of distress on the Ravs face as he drank the tea. Later, the students asked R Diskin why he drank the tea since it was possible that it might have seriously endangered his health. R Diskin answered them by saying, Isnt it a clear Gemara? ‘It is better for a man to throw himself into a burning furnace rather than embarrass his friend in public. Its clear from here that it was forbidden for me to embarrass the shamash in public just because he made a mistake and used salt instead of sugar.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 18:50:01 +0000
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