Eizik Homiler

The Alter Rebbe once remarked to R’ Eizik that he shouldn’t become a Rebbe. Years later, the Chassidim once chose R’ Eizik to become their Rebbe. They sent the wagon to bring him, and R’ Eizik acquiesced, and began climbing into the wagon. As he stood, with one foot on the step, he recalled the Alter Rebbe’s words to him, and he immediately turned back. This was an act of tremendous self-sacrifice on his behalf, because, the moment that he lifted his foot onto the step of the wagon, he experienced all the wellsprings of knowledge opening before him and filling his mind, and when he turned back they ceased, yet he unconditionally obeyed the directives of his Rebbe.