A Chassidic tradition holds that the last twelve days of the year – Elul 18 to 29 – are specifically devoted to the twelve months of the closing year: on each of these twelve days, one should review the deeds and achievements of its corresponding month:
On the 15th of Elul, 5657 the Rebbe Rashab announced his plan to open a new and kind of yeshiva which will ultimately be named “Tomchei Tmimim”. The challenge was unique – a lifestyle change: “The Yeshiva is not only for Torah, there’s no shortage of houses of Torah …
The wedding day of the 6th Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, the Rebbe Rayatz, and Rabbanit Nechama Dina in 5657 (1897) became a significant date in the Chassidic calendar. As the Rebbe explains, this is a day when, year after year, the energy of joy is awakened …
Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman – Torah scholar, Kabbalist, philosopher, physician, poet and Jewish leader – was born in the year 4954 from Creation. He was raised, studied, and lived for most of his life in Girona, Catalonia. Being a brilliant scholar, he did not wish to make any profit …
The Rebbe: “Beginning from the Chamisha Asar BeAv it’s customary to greet people with the blessing « May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year » (ספר-השיחות תנש »א ח »ב עמ’ 770). ——– The Talmud says that from the Fifteenth of Av onward, the power of the sun decreases and …
Even after Haman was hanged (on the 17th of Nissan), his evil decree « to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews, from young to old, infants and women, in one day » remained in force. Queen Esther pleaded with King Achashverosh to annul the decree. However, in ancient Persia, the …
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (the Rebbe Rayatz), was arrested by agents of the GPU (Soviet Secret Police) and Yevsketzia (‘Jewish section’ of the Communist Party) shortly after midnight of the 15th of Sivan of 5687. He was accused of dispatching teachers and rabbis to the farthest reaches of the …
The Rebbe’s parents, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson and Rebbetzin Chana Yanovsky were married on the 11th of Sivan, 5660 (1900). In 5660, at the age of 22, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak had already become renowned as a Kabbalistic and halachic scholar.On the 11th of Sivan, 5660, he married Rebbetzin ChanaYanovsky. …
The Rebbe reveals: – … Each day, G‑d gives the Torah anew as reflected in our description of Him as “the Giver of the Torah,” in the morning blessings using the present tense. Just as the creation of the world at large is renewed each day, so too the …
On this day (2448), Moshe Rabeinu made a covenant with the Jewish people at the foot of Mount Sinai: And he took the Book of the Covenant and read it within the hearing of the people, and they said, « All that HaShem spoke we will do and we will …
