When administrators at a Lubavitch school decided to force children from non-Chabad backgrounds to daven with the Chabad nusach, the Rebbe was greatly disappointed and directed some sharp words at them.

Reb Avrohom Rotenberg, a Gerrer real estate agent, lived for two years at 777 Eastern Parkway and would frequent 770. When his father suffered a heart attack, the Rebbe advised him to “Think Good” and a miracle occurred.

When Rabbi Moshe Herson served as a young mashpia at the Yeshiva in Newark, he wasn’t sure if he was making an impact. The Rebbe told him about three kinds of students and which ones he should focus on.

When Reb Tuvia Bloi of Yerushalayim drew up a list of Chabad minhagim, he included practices he saw at the Rebbe’s minyan in 770. He was shocked when the Rebbe told him that they weren’t reliable.

During the Frierdiker Rebbe‘s USA visit in 5690 (1930), Chassidim in Riga spent Tishrei alone with our Rebbe. Reb Elya Chayim Althaus records the experience in his diary.

A Lubavitch principal, who was invited to speak at Torah Umesorah’s annual convention, asked the Rebbe what to say. The Rebbe had a direct message.

When a large donation was marked for “Lubavitch,” the Frierdiker Rebbe advised Reb Shlomo Aharon Kazarnovsky to consult with the Rebbe on where to direct the funds and he explained why there was no concern of bias.

Reb Nosson “Bobby” Vogel, one of the founders and leading supporters of Lubavitch Boys’ School of London, told the Rebbe that it was getting too hard. The Rebbe responded to him in “business language.”

When Reb Sholom Deitsch requested a bracha for the Rebbe’s health, the Rebbe told him what he could do to make sure that the Rebbe had good health.

When the son of a Belzer chossid who spoke against the Rebbe went off the Torah path, he was brought back by Chabad chassidim. The father shared his story with the Rebbe and he got a heartwarming response.

When a resident of Kfar Chabad complained to the Rebbe that Reb Binyomin Klein didn’t visit him, the Rebbe told Reb Binyomin that he is in good company.

When a woman from the USSR told the Rebbe in yechidus that her husband is carrying “heavy baggage,” the Rebbe advised them to leave it with him and it will all get “shredded.”

The point of camp away from home, the Rebbe explained, is to spare the child from his parents’ pity and allow him to be pushed to learn Torah properly.

At a farbrengen in Paris in 5707, the Rebbe wept as he highlighted the Frierdiker Rebbe‘s mesirus nefesh to rip himself away from davening and learning in order to make sure that American children know alef-beis.

Every time Rabbi Shlomo Goren asked the Rebbe why he didn’t come to Eretz Yisroel, the Rebbe gave him a different response. But on his fourth visit, the Rebbe gave him the full answer.

When a chosson told the Rebbe that he was facing problems with his engagement, the Rebbe replied that they were the result of one problem: the excessive meetings with his kalla.

In the middle of a farbrengen, the Rebbe began conversing with a local storekeeper in Italian until the emotional man handed to the Rebbe all of his keys…

After the Six-Day-War, the Rebbe insisted that Mivtza Tefillin continue in full force, and he even asked for the names of all those who participated.

Since children are impressionable like a young tree, the Rebbe told Rabbi Mottel Altein, boys and girls of all ages should have separate school buildings.

When the New York State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz joined the Lag Baomer Parade, he expressed concern that it would soon rain. But the Rebbe assured him that he need not worry.