The tzaddikim of the past too. You know the chassidim when there’s a yartzeit they get together and sit around the table in the beis hamedrash; there’s a little bit of cake and some whiskey and they talk about stories of tzaddikim. So some people think it’s a waste of time. But a rebbe once said that he saw in the distance over a beis hamedrash a light in the sky, an anan shel kavod. And he said it’s because in that beis hamedrash they’re sitting and talking about tzaddikim, stories of tzaddikim.
Sippurei tzaddikim are very important. The Torah spends so much time talking about Avrohom and Yitzchok and Yankev and the other tzaddikim because that is Torah. Talking about tzaddikim is Torah. And so when people get around their table, let’s say in the shtiebel and talk about their own rebbe, very good! By raising up the honor of the tzaddikim they’re refuting all the fools who make everything else in the world important. It’s a mitzvah.
