The Big Complaint

When the Alter Rebbe began to disseminate Chassidus they came to him with a complaint about his Chassidim.

What was the complaint? There are those that are not holding by anything, but they behave and make as if they are advanced enough to have hisbonenus, as if they are advanced enough to have a love for G-d, as if they are advanced enough to have a fear for G-d, as if they are able to learn chassidus and act accordingly.

The Alter Rebbe heard the entire complaint and said: “If so, then the psak of the mishna should apply. The mishna says that someone that is not blind, crippled or lame and pretends that he is, “Won’t die of old age until he becomes like one of them”

Since they pretend to be chassidim, and they pretend to have ahavas Hashem, yiras Hashem and hisbonenus and davening at length with all of the things that chassidus demands, and they have no connection to it – they should know that  “He won’t die of old age until he becomes like one of them” until they become all of those things!

Automatically, if it looks like someone is moved to do something that he has no relevance to, in the end, the mishna has a psak din for everyone, that “He won’t die of old age until he becomes like one of them” and he will be moved from his place.

Like the (Friedige) Rebbe said that now the ice was affected, when the ice was already affected, in the end, it will become, and then it will become warm water and afterwards it will become mayim chaim.

Should this be through mashke, should it be through a nigun, it should at least look like he was moved...