Reb Chaim Avraham, one of the Alter Rebbe’s sons, never wanted to recite Chassidus in public. Once, in Vitebsk, when they pressured him to recite Chassidus, he sat as if preparing himself. Several minutes passed before he quoted from Tehillim (119:11): In my heart I hid Your words, so I would not sin against You.
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Parshas Devarim"In My Heart I Hid Your Words"As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 51, no. 28 A Sign That I Once Knew How to LearnAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 290, no. 12 Reb Aizel was very self-effacing in his old age. But he once heard how one of his students, Reb Yitzchak, repeated Reb Aizel’s words before the other students and explained how the Rebbe (Reb Aizel) arranged his words in a manner that anticipated any objection. “It’s a sign, ” Reb Aizel remarked, “that when I was young I knew how to learn. ” Not to Be Different on Market DayAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 309, no. 44 On market days when all the Yidden would daven earlier, Reb Aizel davened earlier, as well. He didn’t wish to be notably different from others, he explained. "He Called Forth the Shamash" — The Work of R. LeivikAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, p. 241, no. 68 On Yud-Tes Kislev, 5685 (1924 ), the Rebbe gazed at R. Leivik, the shamash of the Znamensksa shul, and said: “אור ויזרח לַש קרא He called forth the ‘shamash’ and he radiated light.2 What is the work of a shamash? In the morning when people come to daven and it’s still dark and too early to daven, he brings them a Tehillim. And this, too, is part of his work: to make sure that the children of the baal-habatim learn; and a shamash must know where a housewife buys her meat, and other similar matters. ”
In the Merit of Shnei HaMeorosAs I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 290-291, no. 14 |