[Chassidut] 19 Kislev Fabrengen

[Ian Jacobi]

Tues 9:30PM at
the Chabad House
491 Comm Ave

...The 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev is celebrated as the 
"Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism." It was on this date, in the year 1798, 
that the founder of Chabad Chassidism, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi 
(1745-1812), was freed from his imprisonment in Czarist Russia. More 
than a personal liberation, this was a watershed event in the history 
of Chassidism, heralding a new era in the revelation of the "inner 
soul" of Torah...