Uri Kaplun

For The customs in this section, as practiced by the Previous Rebbe, were assembled from letters and talks of the Rebbe Shlita. [Further wedding customs are to be found in an anthology compiled by R. Chanoch Glitzenstein in honor of the fiftieth anniversa...

One should endeavor to arrange that a bar-mitzvah should be called to the Reading of the Torah for his first aliyah on a Monday or Thursday morning, or at Minchah on Shabbos. A directive of the Alter Rebbe; see Likkutei Dibburim, Vol. II, p. 533 [and in E...

(a) Zayin Adar: On the seventh of Adar (the anniversary both of the birth and of the passing of Moshe Rabbeinu) and at the preceding Minchah, the Rebbeim of Chabad never said Tachanun. This was the case after they had assumed the leadership, never beforeh...

(a) Yud Shvat: The tenth of Shvat is the day on which our saintly master and teacher — R. Yosef Yitzchak, the sixth of the Rebbeim of Chabad — departed this world. Born on Yud-Beis Tammuz 5640 (תר"מ; 1880), the Rebbe Rayatz succeeded to the leadership in ...

(a) Asarah BeTeves: Regarding the fast of the Tenth of Teves, see the above section (p. 92ff.) on The Three Weeks and Public Fasts. (b) Restriction on Torah Study: The Rebbe Rashab once said that the reason for not studying Torah on Nittel-nacht, [the Yid...

On the third day of Chanukah, in the year 5561 (תקס"א; 1800) the Alter Rebbe was released from his second imprisonment. This was a victory for the teachings and spiritual lifestyle of Chassidus, far more so than the liberation [on Yud-Tes Kislev] two year...

Cf. Siddur, p. 339 Boys begin lighting the Chanukah lights some time before their bar-mitzvah. See sichah of the Rebbe Rayatz, Shabbos Chanukah 5706, in the supplement to the maamar beginning Baruch SheAsah Nissim, p. 20, sec. 8. [The footnotes to this se...

(a) Tes Kislev: The Mitteler Rebbe — R. DovBer [Shneuri], of sainted memory, the second of the Rebbeim of Chabad — was born on the ninth of Kislev in the year 5534 (תקל"ד; 1773). He was Rebbe from 5573 (תקע"ג; 1812) until his passing on the ninth of Kisle...

Chaf MarCheshvan: The Rebbe Rashab — R. Shalom DovBer Schneersohn, of sainted memory, the fifth of the Rebbeim of Chabad — was born at 9.00 a.m. on the second day of the week in which Parshas Chayei Sarah is read, on the twentieth of MarCheshvan in the ye...

(a) Tachanun: In every prayer service at which Tachanun is not said (such as from Motzaei Yom Kippur until the conclusion of Rosh Chodesh MarCheshvan; at Maariv throughout the year; at Minchah on erev Shabbos or erev Yom-Tov; etc.), one does not beat one’...