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== His Histalkus == On Sunday, 17 Kislev 5533 (two days before his histalkus), the Maggid told the Alter Rebbe that in a person's final three days of life, they see only the dvar Hashem (G-d's word) that exists within every physical thing. Two days later, on Tuesday, the Maggid grasped the Alter Rebbe's hands and said to him: "19 Kislev is the hilula of both of us." And on that day - 19 Kislev - the Maggid was nistalek and was buried in the town of Anipoli. The Chevra Kadisha and the Maggid's disciples divided among themselves who would handle his tahara (purification). In a din Torah, it was decided that the Chevra Kadisha and the disciples who were registered in their hometown's Chevra Kadisha ledger would handle the tahara. One of them was the Alter Rebbe, who was registered in the ledger in his town of Liozna. In the lottery the disciples drew to determine which limb each would attend to during the tahara, the Alter Rebbe received the note saying "rosho kesem paz" (his head is pure gold), meaning the immersion of the head. When the Maggid's body was brought to the mikvah, the Alter Rebbe said they should let their Rebbe immerse himself, and indeed they did so, and the Maggid immersed three times! ==== His Testament ==== There are at least two known tzavaos (spiritual wills) from the Maggid. The first tzavaah was signed, in addition to the Maggid himself, by his greatest talmidim: Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli, Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk, and the Alter Rebbe. In this tzavaah, the Maggid writes, among other things, that after his passing, only these five disciples who signed at the bottom of the page should handle the tahara and burial of his body, and besides them, no one else is permitted to touch. In the second known tzavaah, personally addressed to his son Rabbi Avraham "the Malach," the Maggid instructs his son whom to associate with among his disciples and what to learn from them: * From Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, listen to advice * From Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen, learn about working on middos (character traits) * From Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli, learn humility * And to the Alter Rebbe, obey everything he says and follow all his ways, for everything that comes from his mouth is a minor prophecy, and even if he had been among the Baal Shem Tov's disciples, he would have been among his greatest students. ==== Restoration of the Tziyun ==== In the cemetery of Anipoli, an ohel was built in an area shared by the Maggid and several of his disciples, including Rabbi Zusha of Anipoli and Rabbi Yehuda Leib HaKohen, author of 'Ohr HaGanuz.' However, during World War II, the cemetery and ohel were destroyed. After the cemetery's restoration, they poured a concrete layer over the area where the ohel had stood and erected a new joint matzeiva for the Maggid and his disciples. Reb Aharon Chazan, a Chabad chassid (whose wife, Mrs. Nechama Leah, was an eighth-generation descendant of the Maggid and seventh-generation descendant of R' Avraham the Malach) who was in Russia, visited the Maggid's ohel before making aliyah in 1966 and discovered the deplorable neglect of the site. He arranged for concrete to be poured over the Maggid's resting place, despite the tremendous difficulty in obtaining such materials at that time, particularly for a tzaddik's kever. When he arrived in Eretz Yisrael, he told the Skulener Rebbe, who was his friend, about the condition of the tziyun. In a letter, the Rebbe responded that he wanted to transfer the matter of maintenance to the (Lubavitcher) Rebbe.<blockquote>"And also regarding the holy gravesite of the light of Israel and his holiness, the Great Maggid of Mezritch, I request that your honor write me the details that I can show your letter to the Lubavitcher Rebbe shlita and others. I spoke by telephone with a member of the household of the aforementioned Rebbe shlita, Rabbi [..] Chadakov, and he told me that we should prepare some details to meet with and show to his holy honor. Namely, the state of the matter and how much the repair of the gravesite will cost, who will do this work, how to send the money, who will handle the matter, and so forth." – From a letter of the Skolener Rebbe to Rabbi Aharon Chazan</blockquote>
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