The chasid pictured above is Rabbi Mendel Futerfas. His badge of honor was 14 years in Siberia for being a chasidic Jew in Soviet Russia and smuggling Jews out to Poland and freedom.
I met him as a child and merited to hear him speak several times as a teen.
He was known for telling stories, particularly from his incarceration, and deriving lessons from everything he heard and saw there. He once told that although playing cards was against prison rules, his prison-mates would always play in their cell. The prison guard could see them playing, however when he came in, the cards would be gone and as hard as he would search, the guard could not find the illicit items. When he finally gave up and promised not to bother the prisoners if they would only tell him what they do with the cards, they told him that every time he came in, they would slip the cards into his own pocket and then pick-pocket the cards back before he left. He learned from this that sometimes we go looking far and long, when we have what we want in our own pocket.
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