Lofty Souls

A Chabad Chasid from the Slonim family in the Holy Land once sailed to White Russia to visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe of that time, the Rebbe Maharash (Rabbi Shmuel, the fourth Rebbe), who was also his relative. The Rebbe asked him many questions about the situation of the Jews in the Holy Land. While answering, the Chasid commented, "I don't understand what is written in certain books that in the Holy Land dwell lofty souls. I know the Jews there, and I haven't seen that they are more special than the Jews here."