During the years before the Rebbe accepted the nesius, the Rebbe once asked a Jew from a Chassidic family from Poland, who had become less observant since his arrival in America, ?If the Baal Shem Tov were living in New York, would you visit him??

The other man replied, ?Of course I would.?

?If so,? the Rebbe continued, ?then you should know that he is right here, in 770.? The Rebbe was, in fact, referring to the Rebbe Rayatz. Within a short period of time, the Polish Jew grew closer to Yiddishkeit and eventually became a member of Anash.

Translated from the Kfar Chabad Magazine