Editing Baruch (father of the Alter Rebbe) (section)

== Customs and Sayings Attributed to Him ==
In Sefer HaSichos 5702 (talk of second night of Rosh Hashanah), the Rebbe Rayatz writes: "The customs of our Rebbes are received from the Alter Rebbe. Already in his youth, the Alter Rebbe would spend the entire first day of Rosh Hashanah, from after Mincha of Erev Rosh Hashanah until Maariv of the second night of Rosh Hashanah, reciting Tehillim. As he saw his father Rabbi Baruch conduct himself this way, and the Alter Rebbe maintained this practice even when he grew older."

In Sefer HaSichos 5703 (p. 153), the Rebbe Rayatz writes: "Most wedding dates for Chabad Rebbes were set for Friday, and this is in memory of Rabbi Baruch and Rebbetzin Rivka's wedding, which was on Friday, 18 Elul."

In Sefer HaSichos 5699 (p. 356), the Rebbe Rayatz relates in the name of the Rebbe Maharash: "I heard from my elderly uncle R' Chaim Avraham, who was told by the chassid R' Yitzchak Eizik of Vitebsk, that in his youth he served the elders who were with the Baal Shem Tov, and remembered R' Baruch, father of the Alter Rebbe, and his brother-in-law R' Yosef Yitzchak, and from them he received this teaching, which they transmitted in the name of the Baal Shem Tov..."