Editing Rabbi Ephraim Yolles (section)

== Relationship with the Rebbe ==
After [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Frierdiker Rebbe]] came to the United States, Reb Yolles asked him to study [[Kabbalah]] and Chassidus with him, and he directed him to his son-in-law, [[the Rebbe]]. After the Frierdiker Rebbe's passing in 1950, he urged his son-in-law the Rebbe to accept the nesius, and since then would regularly attend his farbrengens. He was close to the Rebbe and accepted him as his personal Rebbe, visiting him several times a year. From the Igros Kodesh series, it's evident that hundreds of Torah letters were exchanged between them, both in nigleh and Kabbalah. When Reb Yolles was asked a question about science and Torah in astronomy (a contradiction between the sun's size as written in Jewish sources versus its scientific size), he referred the question to the Rebbe. His level of hiskashrus and bitul to the Rebbe was well-known.

On 19 Kislev (when the Rebbe would write which masechta he would take in Chalukas HaShas), he would give his pen to the Rebbe. Afterward, the Rebbe would return it to him, saying yasher koach, and sometimes adding more.

In Cheshvan 1956, he merited to hear from the Rebbe the maamar "Ashrei Tivchar" in yechidus, which was said in honor of his grandson's bris.

At the 10 Shevat 1976 farbrengen where the Rebbe requested rabbis to rule that Eretz Yisroel belongs to Am Yisroel, he was one of the rabbis who stood to speak.

At the 11 Nissan 1983 farbrengen, as the Rebbe was leaving, he approached and spoke with the Rebbe for a short time. When finished, he held the Rebbe's hand, brought it to his lips, and kissed it warmly in front of all the farbrengen participants.