Chai Elul

Reb Groinem, the mash­pia in Lubav­itch, re­lated the Baal Shem Tov’s words, “I could as­cend in a Heav­enly whirl­wind like Eliyahu the prophet, but I want to carry out the Torah in full — and there it states: For dust you are, and to dust you will re­turn.”¹⁶

16. Bereishis 3:19. ↩

When the Al­ter Rebbe heard an in­fant cry­ing in the Mit­teler Rebbe’s room, he came in­side — where the Mit­teler Rebbe sat with­out hear­ing the cries — and asked, “Why don’t you learn from me? In the deep­est med­i­ta­tion, I can still hear a fly’s wings beat­ing against the wall. ”

They once wanted to ap­point Reb Aizel to be a rebbe in Ret­z­itza. He was about to sit down in the car­riage to leave, when he re­minded him­self that the Al­ter Rebbe had once told him, “Aizik, do my chil­dren a fa­vor” — and he turned down the of­fer.