אות - רצח

One of the Rebbe’s followers came to him on the day before Yom Kippur. The man had been very sick and told the Rebbe of his great suffering. One of his townsmen and good friends standing nearby said, “His illness has become worse because he immersed in the mikvah .”

The Rebbe replied, “You blame the illness on a good observance. It is more fitting to blame it on sin.”

This took place in Uman on the Rebbe’s last Yom Kippur.