Reb Shlomo shared with us many insights about the month of Kislev. In addition to Chanukkah which is celebrated between 25 Kislev—2 Tevet, the month is laden with many days that recall events surronding many great Rebbes who had a profound influence on the Torahs and Stories of Reb Shlomo.

On the 5th Kislev we celebrate the yahrtzeit (anniversary of the death) of Reb Shemuel Eliezer Eidel’s (1555-1631), the “Maharsha” and on the 9th of Kislev we recall the day that Reb Dov Ber. the son of Reb Schneur Zalman·of Liadi was born and died on. On the 10th of Kislev (1826) Reb Dov Ber was released from prison, a day that is celebrated by Chabad Chassidim and on the 18th of Kislev the body of Reb Baruch Mezhibuzher, the son of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov’s daughter, Adel, and her husband, Rabbi Yechiel Ashkenazi left this world. On the 19th we remember the death of the The Maggid of Mezeritch and on the 19th of Kislev we recall the release of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi from prison. On the 21st of Kislev we recall how in 1944 the Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum was rescued from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, along with 1,368 other Jews. On the 27th of Kislev we recall the time that the Flood rains ceased (forty days and nights of rainfall which covered the face of earth with water in Noah’s time) and the death of Reb Chaim of Tchernovitz (Be’er Mayim Chayim (“Well of Living Waters”)) who was a disciple of the Maggid of Mezritch and of Rabbi Yechiel Michel of Zlotchov.

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