@ChabadShlucha,
“I watched a video of his descendent testifying to the above. That the Gra saw the Alter Rebbe through the keyhole of his door in Vilna, and realized there was so much kedusha there that he would have become a chossid”
Interesting you bring that up. In Lubavitch our version is that the Talmidim of the GR”a didn’t let the Alter Rebbe in, however the descendants of the Gra, (specifically Rav Yoshe Beer Soleveitchik) had a different version, the one you mentioned. Another difference in the versions is who the Alter Rebbe went with. In our version, he went with R Mendel of Vitebsk, in Rav Soleveitchik’s version, he went with the Berditchever. I can’t post links here, so Google “alter Rebbe vilan gaon” should be the second result where you can watch Rav Leibel Schapiro (Rosh Yeshiva and Rob of Chabad in Miami) say it over the way he heard it from Rav Soleveitchik.
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