צז

At Motzai Shabbas — the second night of Sukkos — he commanded that he be carried from the chair and was laid on his bed. And he was then exceedingly weary and exhausted — and he said that he was so tired because he had sat so long on the chair. Afterward he answered and said in a somewhat louder voice: "Do you remember the story I told you when I arrived here?" And immediately I stood trembling and asked him in awe: which story? (For had I not truly heard from him many, many awesome stories?) He answered and said: "The story I told you at my entry here." And immediately I was very greatly startled — for I remembered clearly the story about the Baal Shem Tov zichrono livracha who had come to a certain place where there were very many great souls that he was compelled to rectify. And he saw that they could not be rectified except through his own passing there — as this story is recorded elsewhere [above, §49].