By chabad.org
After escaping Nazi-occupied Paris, and many perilous months in Vichy France, the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, and his wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, boarded the SS Serpa Pinto in Lisbon, Portugal.
On Monday, June 23 1941 –Sivan 28 on the Jewish calendar– at 10:30 A.M., they arrived in New York.
Shortly after his arrival, the Rebbe’s father-in-law, the then Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchak Schneersohn (who had been rescued from Nazi-occupied Warsaw in 1940), appointed him to head the social and educational outreach programs of Chabad-Lubavitch.
Thus the Rebbe began his decades-long revolutionary work to revitalize Jewish life in the Western Hemisphere, which spread, by means of the shluchim he dispatched from his New York headquarters, to every part of the world.
A new booklet marks the 70th anniversaty to that special date in Chabad history. The 12-page “Leben Mitten Rebben” was wrriten by Mendel Jacobs, a bochur from Cleavland, Ohio.
COLlive.com is provided the booklet for download – click here
It’s special that’s it’s on a special day. May Hashem bless you with a fantastic year! And all of us with the geulah.
A very special young lady’s birthday (turning 25, I believe) is today, may Hashem bless her with all good things!
Today marks 69 years since…. It’ begins the 70th year.