Before the Rebbe Rayatz passed away, a certain Chassid told the present Rebbe that he had a number of problems, but he did not want to trouble the Rebbe Rayatz with them. The Rebbe replied: ?We Don't need to have mercy on a Rebbe.?

Several years went by, and the Rebbe accepted the nesius. When that same Chassid went into yechidus with the Rebbe, the Rebbe told him, ?Please have mercy on me.? The surprised Chassid asked, ?But didn?t the Rebbe himself say that one should not have mercy on a Rebbe?? The Rebbe replied, ?But you Don't have to be mehudar on this issue!?

Translated from the Kfar Chabad Magazine