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#5697 – Very Special Day Today! For Whom?
#5697 – Very Special Day Today! For Whom?
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Moreinu Harav Shlit’a. Thank you for answering immediately, by using for Torah purposes, the modern communicating technology now available. When we read your email for all in shul, some of the present mentioned that it was mainly kept by Chabad Chasisdim, is that correct?
Answer
This special day is also very significant within the Chabad movement, as it commemorates the date of the day of the liberation of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi from prison (1798).
The imprisonment of Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (Hebrew: שניאור זלמן מליאדי), the first Rebbe of Chabad (also known as the “Alter Rebbe” in Yiddish) occurred against the backdrop of intense days of transcendental communal conflict.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by, Horav Yaakov Hirschman Horav, Dovid Pam, Horav Aharon Miller, Horav Chanoch Ehrentreu and Horav Kalman Ochs Shlit’a
Answered by:
Hagaon Rav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a
Published:
December 9, 2025
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