A Chossid's Simcha

“Throw you mara shechora into the dead sea!”

Longtime Detroit Shliach Reb Berel Shemtov, was standing in a personal yechidus, and with these words, the Rebbe demanded from him to be happy.

Reb Berel, taken by the Rebbe’s direct instruction, stood frozen in his place. “The Rebbe should give me a bracha for simcha,” he asked the Rebbe.

“You are a chossid,” the Rebbe responded, “and your father is a chossid...

“In di daled amos darf men zain b’simcha – in this space one needs to be joyous!”

(As heard from Reb Kasriel Shemtov)