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 | Kislev 19
The "New Year" of Chassidism
The 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev marks the "birth" of Chassidism: the day it was allowed to emerge from the womb of mysticism into the light of day, to grow and develop as an integral part of Torah and Jewish life  3 Comments | |
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 | Books With Souls
The Sefarim Victory on Tevet 5, 5747 (1987)
By Chana KrollThe real completion of a Sefer Torah (Torah scroll) --the Rebbe said--is in the sefarim, the printed Torah books --such as the ones returned to us on the 5th of Tevet 1 Comment | |
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 | Shevat 10: A Day of Two Rebbes
The sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, passed away on this date in 1950. Exactly one year later, Rabbi Menachem Mendel accepted the leadership of the movement, and set about transforming the face of world Jewry... | |
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 | Sivan 28: An American at Sinai
The Day the Rebbe and Rebbetzin Arrived in the U.S.A.
By Shais TaubIf it were not for what happened on the 28th of Sivan in 1941, I'm not really sure where my conscious connection to my Jewishness would have come from. If my Jewishness lies over the sea, I am scared to think what would have become of me. 6 Comments | |
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 | Birthday: a Chai Elul Anthology
"Chai Elul" - the 18th day of the month of Elul - is the birthday, in 1648, of the founder of Chassidism, Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov. It is also the day on which his " spiritual grandson," the founder of Chabad, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, was born, in 1745 | |
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 | The Arrest and Liberation of Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch
Kislev 10, 5587 (1826)
By Yerachmiel TillesCareful note was taken of all written materials, and anything else they considered suspicious. Additional investigators measured the Rebbe's study hall; the astonished chassidim could not figure out what they were trying to find... 2 Comments | |
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