Always Yom Tov

It is well known that all year long Rav Chaim Meir, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, lived in a Yom Tov atmosphere. The parsha read each week awakens the times and the feelings, and so each week the Rebbe lived the Yomim Tovim mentioned in it. There was no parsha, haftorah or connection to the upcoming Yom Tov that he ever missed. Whether it was explicit or hinted at in a gematria, roshei teivos or notrikon, he always connected his Divrei Torah to Yom Tov, and this created a holiday atmosphere.

The time between the Yomim Tovim was for the Rebbe like Chol HaMoed, and as soon as one Yom Tov ended, the next began with almost no break between them. As winter began he was already preparing for Pesach, and at the end of summer the coming Yomim Noroim were already beckoning him and found their way into his every nuance. Nissan and Tishrei held hands and embraced as their sanctity permeated one another and spread its kedusha over all who basked in the Rebbe's light.

When his son printed the third volume of Imrei Chaim and gave it to the Gerrer Rebbe, the Bais Yisrael, telling him that it was Volume 3 on the Moadim, the Gerrer Rebbe remarked, "And do you mean to tell me that the other two volumes are not about the Moadim?"