In the relatively earlier years
in 770, there was once a visitor. This visitor was a chosid, but when it came
to davening, he davened in the manner of Chagat Chassidim; - jumping and
gesticulating with his hands etc. Naturally, the bochurim found it strange, and
some of them (who happen to be today from the ziknei hamashpi’im) began
deriding him – ‘a chitzon’ etc.
R’ Mendel Morozov was there as
well, and he was slightly older than the rest of them; old enough to have
witnessed an earlier generation of Chassidim, and to know that there can be
different expressions of avodas Hashem within the framework of Lubavith. He
rebuked the bochurim, saying: “How do you know that it’s chitzoniyus? Why can’t
there be another way of davening, even if it’s not your way?”.
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