An event of a different kind: Rabbi Mordechai Yoseph was a foremost disciple of Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk. The subject of the earliest lecture on Hasidism, the Kotzker Rebbe sought to overcome complacency, and in the process became distant and angry. Rabbi Mordechai Yoseph, in contrast, was accessible and serene. They were together for thirteen years. Then something happened which brought about a separation. Usually viewed as precipitated by Kotzk, it may actually have been prompted by Rabbi Mordechai Yoseph’s departure to Izbitse. In a later era, the Izbitse’s descendant, Rabbi Shmuel-Shlomo, hy”d, went to his death in 1942 calling for armed resistance.