On Yud-Tes Kislev in 5688 (1927) the Rebbe sent R. Shmuel Michel Treinin to dance with the younger men. Earlier, when the older men were dancing among themselves, the Rebbe joined them. Afterwards he said, “Now let us mix with everyone. What is a dance? When one mixes together with everyone. ” And he began dancing.
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Parshas Nitzavim–Vayeilech"What Is a Dance? Mixing With Everyone"As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 213, no. 23 "Do My Children a Favor"As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 58, no. 40 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. True Teshuvah Is Like the Goy of VitebskAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 37-38, no. 13 The Alter Rebbe once said about teshuvah, “True teshuvah is akin to what the goy in Vitebsk felt.” What was the story? A river runs through Vitebsk, dividing it into two. There was no bridge in those days and people went across the water in a small boat, a lodke. A powerful wind was blowing one day and the people standing beside the river told the fellow: Don’t go. It’s too dangerous. But he paid them no heed, set off in his boat and drowned. “In the very moment when he saw he was going to drown, ” the Alter Rebbe commented, “how distraught was he for not having listened to his friends, and for setting off instead. That is true teshuvah.” Yodei Teruah, Not Tokei TeruahAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 58, no. 41 In his old age Reb Chaim Avraham, the Alter Rebbe’s son, went to the Tzemach Tzedek to hear him blow the shofar. The Rebbe Maharash (the Tzemach Tzedek’s son) asked him: “Why do you trouble yourself? You can make your own minyan to hear the tekios.” “The posuk states: תרועה יודעי העם אשרי – Happy are the people who know [the sound of] the Teruah5 — who know the Teruah, not who blow the Teruah,” he replied.
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