1.
The [author of the] Divrei Hayim [1793–1876] once asked how his books are valued by the public and whether they are as valued as the Ohev Yisrael. When they replied that they were, he was glad.
2.
He used to look into the Ohev Yisrael every Shabbat.
3.
R. Hayim Sanzer’s (the Divrei hayim’s) grandfather, R. Isaiah Lisker (the author of Ve-herev pefiyot) was a son-in-law of the great R. Hayim Sanzer of Brody [d.1783]. People say that R. Hayim had to return to this world to become a Hasid.
4.
After the story with the horse, R. Meir of Ostrog [d.1790] (the author of Meir netivim), who was a student of the Besht despite being older than him (and was once an opponent), came to Brody to R. Hayim, who was his friend.
Once R. Meir told him an interpretation of [a passage in] Ez Hayim according to the teachings of the Besht and R. Hayim did not comprehend it. R. Meir said to him: “This is something that I received from my teacher the Besht”. R. Hayim replied that he wanted nothing to do with a teacher who smacks horses.
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