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Yahrzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe's father (1944)

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Eitz Chaim by Heart, Like Ashrei

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 359-360, no. 4 · Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson

Once when R. Leivik [Levi Yitzchak] fin­ished speak­ing, R. Mi­choel asked him, “Where does all this come from?”

In such-and-such se­fer, on such-and-such page, he replied. (It was from Eitz Chaim.)

Now Pinya (R. Biny­omin’s son) was quite sharp. “Zal­man, ” he said to me, “open an­other page. ”

R. Leivik was a gen­tle per­son, and he pro­ceeded to re­cite a num­ber of pages in the way a Yid re­cites Ashrei.

(I once noted that be­fore be­com­ing flu­ent in Eitz Chaim , one be­comes flu­ent in other works.)

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson HumilityTemimus (sincerity)

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Leningrad Nights: Midrashim According to Chassidus

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 435-436, no. 32 · Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson

Continued from the biography of R. Zalman Duchman:

He con­tin­ues to de­scribe the time they spend to­gether in Leningrad:

“The plea­sure, the de­light we had then in Leningrad is be­yond de­scrip­tion. We went to visit him nearly ev­ery night and he ex­plained Midrashim ac­cord­ing to Chas­sidus. “Nu, Zal­man,” Pinya [Al­thoiz] would ask me, “are you over­whelmed yet?” R. Mi­choel Dvorkin once mus­tered the courage to ask him, “How do you know all this?” “He [the Rebbe Rashab ] gave me the ba­sic rules, ” he an­swered.

“Shab­bos in win­ter­time Leningrad be­gins at three in the af­ter­noon, and af­ter the Shab­bos din­ner we — R. Mi­choel Dvorkin, both Pinyas, Menashe62 and I — would come to him. When we came once and saw him rest­ing on a small sofa, he told us that the Rebbe Rashab had said to him, ‘Above all, one must al­ways be en­gaged in thought, even when rest­ing for a while. ’”

  1. Both Pinyas: R. Pinchas, the son of R. Eliyahu Chaim Althoiz; and the brothers R. Pinchas and R. Menashe, the sons of R. Binyomin Althoiz. ↩
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson

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Where Does All This Come From?

As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 358-359, no. 2 · Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson

The plea­sure, the de­light we had then in Leningrad is be­yond de­scrip­tion. We went to visit him nearly ev­ery night and he ex­plained Midrashim ac­cord­ing to Chas­sidus. “Nu, Zal­man,” Pinya [Al­thoiz] would ask me, “are you over­whelmed yet?” R. Mi­choel Dvorkin once mus­tered the courage to ask him, “How do you know all this?”

“He [the Rebbe Rashab ] gave me the ba­sic rules, ” he an­swered.

Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson HiskashrusHumility

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