י"ב תמוז חג הגאולה של אדמור הריי"ץ
12 Tammuz - The liberation of the Previous Rebbe from jail
Please join us for a special Kiddush & seudat Shabbat to celebrate this occasion
שבת פרשת חוקת תשפ"ב
Shabbat, July 9, 2022
1pm
Chabad Israel Center
44 Brunswick Street
Staten Island, NY
On the 12th of Tammuz of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, 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.
Tammuz 12 is also Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's birthday.
Read more about the arrest and liberation of the Previous Rebbe.
