Passover reading ---

"When the Baal Shem, the Master of The name, as the founder of Hasidism was called, had a difficult task, he would go to a certain place in the woods, light a fire and meditate in prayer -- and what he set out to perform was doene. When a generation later, the Maggid of Meseritz was faced with the same task, he would go to the same place in the woods and say: "We can no longer light the fire, we can still speak the prayers --and what he wanted done became reality. Again a generation later Rabbi Moshe Leib of Sassov had to perform this task. And he, too, went into the woods and said: "We can no longer light a fire, nor do we know the secret meditations belonging to the prayer, but we know the place in the woods where it all belongs--and that must be sufficient," and sufficient it was. But then another generation had passed and Rabbi Israel of Rishin was called upon to perform the task, he sat down in the golden chair in his castle and said: "We cannot light the fire, we cannot speak the pryers, we do not know the place, but we can tell the story of how it was done." And the story teller adds, the story which he told had te same effect as the actions the other three."