01/19/2024
This Shabbat is a particularly auspicious day on the Jewish Calendar. The 10th of Shevat marks the Yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rayatz - R' Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson OB"M (the 6th Lubavitcher Rebbe). The heroic leader of the Jewish People who, with tremendous self sacrifice, kept the flame of Judaism alive through perhaps their darkest period in Jewish history - the Holocaust and Russian Communist oppression. He later established the Chabad movement in the US where it flourished. He passed on Shabbat in the year 1950.
It is also the day that his son-in-law, R' Menachem Mendel Schneerson accepted the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, becoming its 7th Rebbe. On this day he began an entirely new era in Jewish history by turning Judasim outward through his global Chabad outreach effort forever changing the trajectory of Jewish history for the better, and paving the way for the coming of Moshiach!
It is a day for Farbrengen and positive resolutions to grow in our Judaism and acts of kindness