PURE REDEMPTION
The message conveyed here about the redemption is about the special quality and perfection of the redemption unto itself, the redemption in its purity
The message conveyed here about the redemption is about the special quality and perfection of the redemption unto itself, the redemption in its purity
Bilam, the heathen prophet hired by the Moabite king Balak to curse the Jewish people, was riding his donkey on the way to meet Balak. Suddenly his donkey stopped in the road and would not move a step farther. When Bilam struck the donkey G-d opened its mouth. It exclaimed, “What have I done to you that made you hit me these three times?”
The arrest – Twenty minutes after midnight, the secret agents banged on the door of the Rebbe Rayatz. That is how the saga of the arrest began
It was a Friday, the first of Teves 5666/1905, the seventh day of Chanuka. It was market day in Lubavitch. Farmers and cattlemen from all the surrounding villages gathered in the main market to buy and sell calves and cows, horses and chickens, along with produce and general merchandise.
From Chapter Fifteen of Rabbi Shloma Majeski’s Likkutei Mekoros, Volume 2
L’chaim! Good Yom Tov! May the Z’chus of the Baal HaGeula and Baal Yom Huledes of 12-13 Tammuz, and the ko’ach of Geula that was brought into the world, stand by all of us for all Brachos B’gashmius U’Biruchnius. May we merit the ultimate and complete Geula now!
12 Tammuz 5733. 7:45 – Shazar arrives in 770 and enters yechidus; 9:15 – the Rebbe and Shazar come out for Maariv; 9:30 – the farbrengen begins, with Shazar sitting alongside the Rebbe and his security detail behind him; 2:00 – the farbrengen concludes and Shazar goes in with the Rebbe to yechidus; 4:00 – Shazar leaves the yechidus accompanied by the Rebbe, concluding an entire night spent with the Rebbe. In retrospect, it becomes clear that this is the final visit of Shazar to the Rebbe. * Fascinating reports and memories from Tammuz 5733 with the Rebbe, published for the very first time from the diary of the late R’ Saadya Maatuf
Adi and her husband looked like the typical, young Israeli couple. They did not categorize themselves as religious. Their lives revolved around a routine of work and building their new relationship.