Jewish Calendar Shabbat, February 4, 2023 13 Shevat, 5783
Jewish Calendar Shabbat, February 4, 2023 13 Shevat, 5783 Torah Reading Beshalach: Exodus 13:17 - 17:16 Judges 4:4 - 5:31 Jewish History Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah Schneersohn (1942) Wife of the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson , and mother of the sixth Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak , Rebbetzin Shterna Sarah (1860-1942) lived through the upheavals of the first half of the 20th century. She fled the advancing front of World War I from Lubavitch to Rostov, where her husband passed away in 1920 at age 59. In 1927, she witnessed the arrest of her son by Stalin's henchmen the night he was taken away and sentenced to death, G-d forbid, for his efforts to keep Judaism alive throughout the Soviet empire. After Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak's release, the family resettled in Latvia and later, Poland; in 1940, they survived the bombing of Warsaw, were rescued from Nazi-occupied city, and emigrated to the United ...