Once R. Chaim Sanzer [of Brody] had difficulty understanding a complex Kabbalistic text in Etz Chaim.
The Meir Nesivim was present, and R. Chaim asked him to elucidate the text. He explained it and his eyes lit up. He asked him: “Where did you learn such a luminous explanation?”
He answered him – “this is the approach to Kabbalah that the Besht studies with his students.”
R. Chaim Sanzer got angry and said: “This [interpretation] from a rebbe that caresses and beats horses, I do not want to hear.”
I.F.
Sanzer Rebbe
Rabbi Rotenberg
