The Talmud relates that on the 17th of Tammuz the first Tablets were broken, and then years later on the same day the walls of Yerushalayim were breached. It is this latter occurrence which places the 17th of Tammuz among the fast days observed in commemoration of the destruction …
There is something extraordinary about the very date of this holiday. Surprisingly, it is celebrated in the month of Tammuz, just a few days before the fast of the 17 of Tammuz (and the following “three weeks”, leading to the fast of Tisha B’av). The Rebbe emphasizes that in fact …
“And I saw, and behold, a tempest was coming from the north, a huge cloud and a flaming fire with a brightness around it; and from its midst, it was like the color of the chashmal from the midst of the fire…” (Yechezkel, 1:4) Ezekiel was among the only prophets …
On the third of Tammuz in the year 2488, Yehoshua bin Nun led the Jewish people in a critical battle to conquer the Land of Israel. Victory was close, but darkness was about to fall. Yehoshua prayed for a miracle and commanded the sun to “stand still at Gibeon” …
Rosh Chodesh – Hebrew for “head of the month” – is the monthly holiday that celebrates the arrival of the new moon, marking the start of a new month in the Jewish calendar. During the new moon, the moon is between the sun and the Earth, the side of …
This week marks 85 years since the arrival of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin to the shores of the United States and the beginning of “tenufah chadasha” – a surge in spreading the Torah and Chassidus. 28 Sivan 5701. At 10:00 in the morning the “Serpa Pinto” ship dropped …
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 …
