The saintly Kabbalist, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, of blessed memory, father of the Rebbe Shlita, passed away on the twentieth day of Menachem Av, 5704 (1944).

Throughout the morning of that day, unceasingly, his lips were seen to murmur. As one of the chassidim at his bedside leaned over, he heard a few words from the Book of Tehillim being uttered with a sigh: "Your footsteps were not known."

And then he heard a whisper, yearning for those footsteps: "Ah! Ikvos Meshicha, ikvos Meshicha!"