Even though the Besht himself told people to speak ill of him to R. Hayim Sanzer (from Brody) because he knew that R. Hayim enjoyed it very much, it once bothered him that R. Hayim was so opposed to him. So he had someone ask R. Hayim: “Why do you think of yourself?” And he replied, “I am nothing.” “And what do you think of the Besht?” “He is also a nothing.” So the Besht asked: “How can a nothing speak and how can one speak [ill] of a nothing?”
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R. Moses Cohen
