June 20-21, 2013

Birthday of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (1880), and anniversary of his release from a capital sentence and imprisonment in Soviet Russia (1927)

You are cordially invited to attend evening of warmth and inspiration
marking the Festival of Liberation, Yud Beis Tammuz

A SPECIAL FARBRENGEN

on Thursday evening, 20 June 2013
12 Tammuz 5773
at 8:00 pm

at the home of David & Aeli Adler
A17 Hunter Avenue, St Ives

PLEASE NOTE: A17 is NOT near number 17. It is in Hunter Ave at the eastern end about 150m from the roundabout at the intersection with Eastern Arterial Rd. Look for a red Australia Post box and park nearby. Walk down a short private road into a subdivision of houses numbered A15, A17, A19, A21 & A23. A17 is at the end on the right side as you approach. Google Maps link: http://goo.gl/maps/rRCen

Men and women welcome.
No charge.

Rabbi Nochum Schapiro will share insights and inspiration from his recent trip to New York in honour of Gimmel Tammuz, the Rebbe's Yahrtzeit.

RSVP requested by reply email
 
About

On the 12th of Tammuz of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, was officially granted release from his sentence of exile to Kastroma in the interior of Russia.

Twenty-seven days earlier, the Rebbe had been arrested by agents of the GPU and the Yevsektzia ("Jewish Section" of the Communist Party) for his activities to preserve Judaism throughout the Soviet empire and sentenced to death, G‑d forbid. International pressure forced the Soviets to commute the sentence to exile and, subsequently, to release him completely. The actual release took place on Tammuz 13, and Tammuz 12-13 is celebrated as a "festival of liberation" by the Chabad-Lubavitch community.
 

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