When the wife of the חוזה מלובלין died, his Chassidim approached his rival, רב עזריאל, the רב of Lublin, and asked that he give his daughter in marriage to their their רבי. He rejected their request. “I can’t do it,” he said. “The תורה says that a father needs to give his daughter לאיש. It saysאת בתי נתתי לאיש הזה. And in your view, your רבי is a מלאך, not an איש.”

06/10/2021