Editing The Rebbe Rayatz (section)

==== Childhood and Education ====
He received his initial and basic education from his great father the Rebbe Rashab, who gave him a pure and authentic chassidic education, as he would later often recount. His father would tell him many stories and would sharpen his memories of things he heard or saw from the great chassidim. In 5644, the Rebbe Rayatz was first brought to cheder under Rabbi Yekusiel melamed dardaki. Rabbi Yekusiel taught the Rebbe Rayatz the alef-beis and would tell him stories about Chassidus and Chabad. In 5645, the Rebbe Rayatz entered the cheder of Reb Zusha melamed dardaki, and in 5646, the Rebbe Rashab began to educate him privately.

The Rebbe Rayatz expressed that from 5648 he became a different person - until then he did not know what a Rebbe was<ref>This was essentially the year when he began to be Rebbe</ref>. From that year began a transformation in the Rebbe Rayatz's life and he began to understand more the meaning of a Rebbe, and began to hear ma'amarim from his father, and matters of "Rebbe," and began to fast on fast days. At that time he began learning with the melamed Reb Shimshon.

When he was nine years old in Elul 5649, he began learning with the melamed Reb Nissan Skobla.

In 5654, the Rebbe Rashab appointed the Rashbatz as his son the Rebbe Rayatz's educator and guide, a role he served until 5660, when the Rashbatz was appointed as mashpia in Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim.

His father the Rebbe Rashab was naturally weak and needed to travel for long periods to health resorts. During these times, all his education was entrusted to his "melamdim." He received his love for chassidic stories primarily from his teacher Reb Yekusiel and from his grandmother Rebbetzin Rivka. In his youth, the Rebbe Rayatz would memorize mishnayos by heart with the encouragement of his father the Rebbe Rashab, and he would be tested on the mishnayos he knew by heart by Rabbi Moshe Binyamin Meitin 'the examiner.' By 5651, the Rebbe Rayatz was well-versed in Sedarim: Zeraim and Moed. Once, the Rebbe Rayatz complained to his teacher Reb Nissan about forgetting all the stories that were told to him, in response he suggested that he write down all the stories, and indeed from 5652 the Rebbe Rayatz began writing a diary.