R. David Moshe of Chortkov asked R. Alter of Wolbrum, who was a descendant of R. David of Lelov, to explain why the Lubliner held a k’peida (grudge) against R. David of Lelov. R. Alter recounted that he heard from older hasidim that the Lubliner’s spirits were weakened when he saw that people were beginning to travel to his own students. He once remarked, “In our old age we are not used to the fact that we are required to travel to teach our students.” Besides this, they conveyed to the Lubliner the slanderous report about his students. They came mostly from two Lubliner hasidim, K’sil, and Berel. They were called such because, about them, the revered Rebbe cited [a verse in Psalms 92:7], "A brutish man [bar] cannot know, and a fool [k’sil] cannot understand this." Zaddikim (saints) said about them that they toiled for forty years to eliminate sinful thoughts from themselves before prevailing upon the Lubliner to accept their slanderous report regarding his students. 

Y.F.

Sanzer Rebbe