19 Kislev 5720 (probaly a different version)

The story is told about when the Baal Hageulah

V’hasimcha, the Alter Rebbe, went to be interrogated

by the government, in the place where people would be

taken afraid for their lives, so that they could decide if

he is going to be killed or be given a different

punishment.

He went in with his Tefillin on - as the story is told by

my father-in-law, the Rebbe, - to this interrogation

room, inside were the people that would interrogate

him. When he entered, the people that were sitting

were not able to stand up, and the ones that were

standing were not able to sit down, due to the fear that

fell upon them when they gazed at the Alter Rebbe.

Later, when the Alter Rebbe was asked to explain why

he this happened, he ans ...