“I sensed in him a special holy neshama, not an individual soul but a comprehensive soul of Klal Yisroel. I don’t know any other gadol in our generation who is concerned for Klal Yisroel and not just a limited group. I once said jokingly – ‘what does a Jew from Russia who lives in Brooklyn have to do with Jews in Morocco, in Casablanca?’ But it’s a fact. The shluchim he sent there transformed Moroccan Jewry and educated a generation of Rabbanim”
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“I have met many g’dolim of this generation and some of them definitely impressed me with their greatness, but the Rebbe is another thing entirely! I have never seen such greatness in all parts of Torah, in p’shat, remez,
drush and sod at once. After I met the Rebbe I said to myself: This is not a human being but an angel of G-d. As for his work in spreading Torah throughout the world, surely there is no need to elaborate on that. I have already related something that happened at my home which the Rebbe saw with his ruach ha’kodesh from the far side of the world, about a couple that would come to me and thanks to the Rebbe’s ruach ha’kodesh a tremendous disaster was averted.
-Mordechai Eliyahu
“He is the greatest of us!”
“He is the complete Israel. He is the perfection of everything. As for us, if we could only merit to learn at least one virtue from him.”
-Baba Sali