Editing The Rebbe Rayatz (section)

==== Sixth Arrest ====
In the summer of 5680, during the morning prayer, the Rebbe Rayatz was serving as the prayer leader during the year of mourning for his father, the Rebbe Rashab. In the middle of the prayer, three policemen entered the synagogue, approached the prayer stand, and ordered the Rebbe Rayatz to remove his tallit and tefillin and come with them. The Rebbe Rayatz responded that he first needed to finish the prayer and study the Mishnayot customarily learned after the prayer, for the elevation of the deceased's soul, and only then would he attend to them.
[[File:שפאלערקע.jpg|thumb|The 'Shpalerka' Prison Where the Frierdiker Rebbe Was Imprisoned]]
After completing the final Kaddish following the Mishnah study, he removed his tallit and tefillin and accompanied the policemen who surrounded him - one on his right, one on his left, and the third walking behind him.
[[File:ידיעה על מאסר הרייצ.jpg|thumb|The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports on the arrest of the Frierdiker Rebbe (Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn).Translation of the news item: "The Rebbe of Lubavitch, the famous Rabbi Schneersohn, was arrested on charges of collecting funds for his yeshiva. The Rebbe's yeshiva is well-known and renowned throughout the world and is considered one of the most important yeshivas, and the Rebbe himself is highly respected. The arrest has caused great agitation in the Jewish world."]]
When he arrived at the "death courtyard", the Rebbe Rayatz was brought into a large hall. About fifteen people, members of the "Religious Inspection Committee", sat around a wide table, with the two most prominent sitting at the head. In front of each sitting person was a loaded gun. The Rebbe Rayatz was seated at the end of the table, with three guards standing beside him.

They turned to the Rebbe Rayatz and said they were occupied with examining the Jewish religion, and he was invited to answer several questions about Jewish law related to Kabbalah and Hasidism. The Rebbe Rayatz responded in Yiddish: "I have already informed you in the two previous times I was called before you that I will not move from my principles; and no person, or even a demon, has been born who can move me from my principles, not even the slightest bit."
[[File:הרייצ.jpg|thumb|The Freideker Rebbe]]
One of the attendees interrupted and raised his gun towards the face of the Rebbe Rayatz (Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn) while saying: "This 'toy' removes principles and is capable of opening the mouth even of the mute." To this, the Rebbe Rayatz responded:<blockquote>This toy makes an impression only on the faint-hearted who have but one world and many gods. But we, who have one G-d and two worlds, this toy that you are showing not only does not frighten us but also makes no impression whatsoever.</blockquote>After a brief conversation, an extended dialogue began between the Rebbe Rayatz and his interrogators. To their question whether he believes in the Jewish religion and fulfills mitzvot out of absolute knowledge or out of faith and habit, he replied - out of absolute knowledge. The interrogators asked the Rebbe Rayatz to convince them of the truth of the Jewish religion, and if possible, to bring them to the elevated moral state in which the Rebbe himself was. The Rebbe Rayatz smiled and answered them that he was ready to fulfill their request, but just as a simple person who meets an astronomer on the street and asks him to teach him the science of astronomy, the astronomer would reply that he should come with him to the observatory and there he would properly teach him the wisdom of the stars and their paths. So too I say to you, if you wish to come to absolute knowledge of the religion of G-d and His Torah, come to the house of Hashem, put on tefillin, eat kosher, observe Shabbat, and when your minds and hearts are purified, you will be able to properly understand moral matters, and slowly you will ascend the rungs of intellect on the path to intellectual recognition of the religion of G-d and His Torah.

The interrogation continued for another long hour, after which the Rebbe Rayatz was released to his home.