Editing The Split of Chabad Chassidus (section)

==== The Travels of the Tzemach Tzedek's Children ====
In 5616 (1856), the Maharil's son, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman, began to gather a group of chassidim around his father and speak to them in his praise, suggesting that he was worthy to continue the Tzemach Tzedek's path after his passing. Since in previous years his grandfather, the Rebbe Tzemach Tzedek, had traveled among his chassidim in small towns where he would deliver chassidus to them, he also approached Chabad chassidim scattered throughout towns across Russia to request that the Tzemach Tzedek send one of his sons to deliver chassidus, claiming they couldn't come to Lubavitch due to the difficulty of travel, the time it took, and the costs involved, and encouraged them to ask the Tzemach Tzedek to send one of his sons on a journey that would pass through all these towns and deliver chassidus. Many requests were sent to the Tzemach Tzedek without specifying which son should be sent on the journey, but simultaneously private requests were sent to the Maharil asking him to undertake such a journey, and when the Maharil received the chassidim's appeals to come and deliver Chassidus in their town, he innocently went to these towns, not knowing that everything was being done as a result of his son Rabbi Shlomo Zalman's propaganda.

In the end, the Tzemach Tzedek decided to undertake the journey himself, accompanied by his son Rabbi Baruch Shalom. As part of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Schneersohn's propaganda, the chassidim in Chernigov asked R' Peretz Chen to request that the Rebbe Tzemach Tzedek send his son the Maharil to their city to deliver Chassidus. Initially, R' Peretz Chen did not want to write explicitly, but rather to write that he should send one of his sons, but after the Chernigov chassidim's insistence that he specify that they meant specifically the Maharil, he wrote so. When R' Peretz Chen arrived in Lubavitch, the Rebbe Tzemach Tzedek criticized him for this, saying, "What makes them think they can dictate which of my children I should send?" When the decision was made public, Rabbi Shlomo Zalman was disappointed and publicly criticized it. When the Tzemach Tzedek's son-in-law, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Zalmanson, heard this, he called for him and reprimanded him, and brought his father the Maharil's attention to what was happening around him.