Weekly Thought:

Hakofos - With New Credit
On Simchas Torah, 5648 (1887) the Rebbe RaShab was honored with the first Sefer Torah for the first Hakofah and the Rebbe said he was not yet ready. The Rebbe called over a chassid, Reb Yaakov Schneur, who was a jobber, and he asked him, “How does jobbing work? And the chassid answered, “I supply merchandise on credit. I bring the merchandise from the big city and give it to the retailers “Behakofah”, on credit. Once they pay for the previous merchandise he gives them the new merchandise ‘Behakofah’.”
Then the Rebbe said, “After our payment with the service of the month of Elul, the days of Selichos, the two days of Rosh Hashanah, Aseres Yemei Teshuvah, Yom Kippur, Sukkos, Shemini Atzeret, etc… then we can go to Hakofos with new credit.” (Simchas Torah 5705 (1944) p. 57)
Simchas Yom Tov
Simchas Torah 5676 (1815) the Rebbe the Tzemach Tzedek danced a great deal, even the healthiest of the young men couldn’t keep up with him. Many fell down, and my great-grandfather kept dancing, and as he danced he would announce, “Dance, Yidden dance, enjoy yourselves with the simcha of the Torah, and in its merit you will merit life, children, and broad sustenance.”
The Rebbitzin Chaya Musia entered the room of her father, the Mittler Rebbe, and complained that he, the holy Tzemach Tzedek her husband, was wearing out the chasidim with his dancing. To her father, the Rebbe, she said, “You should have seen how he is out of himself. My grandfather the Alter Rebbe, told me that he has broad senses (chushim) his intellectual powers is broad and great.”
The Mittler Rebbe answered her, “By him, the Tzemach Tzedek, is now illuminating the light of the simcha of the Torah like it shone in the Beis Hamikdash...”
The night after Simchas Torah the Tzemach Tzedek used to change into another Kapote, because the first one was soaked with sweat and torn. When the grandfather, the Tzemach Tzedek, would go into his special room, the Mittler Rebbe’s great chasidim would get pieces of the torn coat as a Segulah for success in Torah and Avodah. (Sefer Hasichos 5703, p. 11)