Editing Rabbi Shneur Zalman Fradkin (section)

== With the Chabad Rebbes ==
In the court of the Tzemach Tzedek there were great geniuses like Rabbi Yitzchak Aizik of Homil and Rabbi Hillel of Paritch, yet they gave him a place of honor in the court, by explicit instruction of the Tzemach Tzedek who defined him as a 'genius.'

The Tzemach Tzedek already then began seating him in Torah judgments, and said about him "he knows how many vavs are in all of Shas." The elder chassidim relate that the Tzemach Tzedek girded him with a gartel and blessed "who girds Israel with might."

The Tzemach Tzedek valued him so much that he asked him to give an approbation to Likkutei Torah, referring to him there as "the greatest genius of our time."

When Rabbi Eliyahu Yosef Rivlin went up to Eretz Yisrael, he wanted to pass through Polotzk. The Tzemach Tzedek told him not to go there, so as not to disturb Rabbi Shneur Zalman from his studies.

Despite his phenomenal memory, he would study the Tzemach Tzedek's teachings for three hours daily, saying that connection to a tzaddik is impossible without studying his Torah daily.

He was also very connected to the Rebbe Maharash, and was one of the three geniuses who crowned the Rebbe Maharash as leader.

The Toras Chesed also gave semicha to the Rebbe Maharash in the laws of issur v'heter, together with the genius rabbis Yitzchak Aizik of Homil, Hillel of Paritch, and Yitzchak Aizik of Vitebsk.

Once, when he was in good spirits, he recited before the Maharash a page of Gemara, a page of Maharsha, and a page of Kinos...

The Rebbe Rashab valued him greatly and said about him: "In earlier generations he would have been considered a genius!"
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