ChaBaD Tuesday, January 17, 2023 24 Tevet, 5783

 ChaBaD
 Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Jewish History

The founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812), passed away on the eve of the 24th of Tevet, 5573, at approximately 10:30 pm, shortly after reciting the Havdalah prayer marking the end of the Shabbat. The Rebbe was in the village of Peyena, fleeing Napoleon's armies, which had swept through the Rebbe's hometown of Liadi three months earlier in their advance towards Moscow. He was in his 68th year at the time of his passing, and was succeeded by his son, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch.

Link: The Life and Teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

A devastating earthquake struck northern Israel, killing four thousand Jews in Safed and between 700 to 1000 Jews in Tiberias. Many of the survivors migrated to Hebron, rejuvenating the developing Chabad community established there 10 years earlier by the second Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch.

One of the first hospitals in America under Jewish direction, Mount Sinai Hospital, was founded in New York on this date in 1852.

Daily Thought

A favorite story of the Rebbe, central to his activist view of life:

Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the first rebbe of the Lubavitch dynasty, led the services for Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year.

He stood wrapped in his prayer shawl, profoundly entranced in the cleaving of his soul to its origin in the Infinite Light. Every word of prayer he uttered was fire. His melody and fervor carried the entire community off to the highest and the deepest journey of the spirit.

And then he stopped. He turned, cast off his prayer shawl and left the synagogue. With a bewildered congregation chasing behind, he walked briskly to the outskirts of town, to a small dark house from where was heard the cry of a newborn infant. The rabbi entered the house, chopped some wood and lit a fire in the oven, boiled some soup and cared for the mother and child who lay helpless in bed.

Then he returned to the synagogue and to the ecstasy of his prayer.

The Rebbe added:

Note that the rabbi removed his prayer shawl. To help someone, you must leave your world, no matter how serene, to enter the place where that person lives.



Halachic Times (Zmanim)
Times for Jerusalem, Israel
5:19 AM
Dawn (Alot Hashachar):
5:52 AM
Earliest Tallit and Tefillin (Misheyakir):
6:39 AM
Sunrise (Hanetz Hachamah):
9:12 AM
Latest Shema:
10:04 AM
Latest Shacharit:
11:49 AM
Midday (Chatzot Hayom):
12:16 PM
Earliest Mincha (Mincha Gedolah):
2:53 PM
Mincha Ketanah (“Small Mincha”):
3:58 PM
Plag Hamincha (“Half of Mincha”):
4:59 PM
Sunset (Shkiah):
5:26 PM
Nightfall (Tzeit Hakochavim):
11:49 PM
Midnight (Chatzot HaLailah):
52:18 min.
Shaah Zmanit (proportional hour):

 

 


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