The last dance engraved in my memory took place on the last Simchas Torah during the day. The Rebbe held his holy hands up high and sang Nye Zhuritze Chloptzi. In the middle he stopped and said, "A gift has been given, but if the recipient had not pleased the benefactor, it would not have been given to him." And he spoke lofty words which I could not understand.
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