בס”ד Tammuz 5770/2010 SPECIAL DAYS IN TAMMUZ Volume 21, Issue 4 Sivan 30/June 12/Shabbos First Day Rosh Chodesh Tammuz Tammuz 1/June 13/Sunday Second Day Rosh Chodesh Yahrtzeit of R. Kalonymus Kalman HaLevi Epstein of Krakow, author of Maor VaShemesh, Chasidic commen-tary on the Torah, 5583 (1823). Tammuz 2/June 14/Monday Birth of Yosef HaTzadik, son of Yaakov Avinu, in 2200 (1560 BCE) and his Yahrtzeit 110 years later in 2300 (1460 BCE). Tammuz 3/June 15/Tuesday Sixteenth Hillulah of our holy Master and Teacher, the Rebbe Nasi Dorenu. Yehoshua commanded "the sun to stand in Givon and the moon in the Valley of Ayalon" "...The Rebbe (the Previous Lubavitcher during the conquest of Israel, [Yehoshua Rebbe) at the train station standing on the 10:12, Seder Olam 11] 2488 (1273 BCE). train at the time of his farewell blessings, turned to the crowd who came to The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe left Spalerno accompany him and said: '....Not by our prison for Kostrama after his death sentence will were we exiled from the land of Israel was commuted, 5687 (1927). and not by our efforts will we return… CHABAD OF HANCOCK PARK OF HANCOCK PARK CHABAD nevertheless, all nations must know: our GIMMEL TAMMUZ ג‘תמוז MONDAY NIGHT - TUESDAY ~ JUNE 14 - 15, 2010 In reference to the practices of Gimmel 2. If there aren’t enough Aliyos the To- Tammuz, the Hillulah of the Lubavitcher rah should be read in different rooms. Rebbe, Nasi Doreinu, we reprint the letter However, no additions should be made to the Rebbe wrote: the number of Aliyos (at each reading). Chabad Chodesh Tammuz 5770 “...In reply to the many questions about a 3. The congregation should see to it that detailed schedule for the Hilullah of the the Maftir should be the most respected Previous Rebbe.” member of the congregation, as deter- mined by the majority of the congrega- 1. On the Shabbos before the Yartzeit tion; alternatively, the choice should be everyone should attempt to be called for determined by lot. an Aliyah to the Torah. CONGREGATION LEVI YITZCHOK CONGREGATION (Continued on page 5) bodies alone have been handed (and encouraged him to finish the Tammuz 9/June 21/Monday into exile to be ruled, but not our Shulchan Aruch)..." [Introduction Yartzeit of Reb Yekusiel Yehudah souls...with regard to everything of the author's sons to the Alter Teitelbaum, the Kloisenburger Rov involving our religion, the Torah of Rebbe's Shulchan Aruch] 5754 (1994). the people of Israel, its "...The Tzemach Tzedek used to commandments and customs...no say "I hold very much of the Panim The Babylonians breached the wall force has the right to subjugate Yafos". [Beis Rebbe] of Yerushalayim, in 3339 (421 us" [Sefer Ha-Maamarim BCE), [Rosh Hashana, 18b] it was a Kuntreisim I, p. 350] Yartzeit of Rebbetzin Esther fast day until the breaching of the Miriam, daughter of the Mitteler wall by the Romans on Tammuz The Great Fire of Lubavitch. The Rebbe, 5579 (1819). 17, 3829 (70), when the fast was houses of the Tzemach Tzedek and replaced by Tamuz 17 [Tur, Orach his sons were burnt, in one of the Tammuz 5/June 17/Thursday Chaim: 549] (According to the worst fires in Lubavitch, 5611 Yehoyachin, king of Yehudah was Talmud Yerushalmi the Babylonian (1851). exiled in chains to Bavel by attack was on Tammuz 17, too.) Nevuchadnetzar, [Melachim II 24, Tammuz 4/June 16/Wednesday Daniel 1, Divrei HaYamim 36], Tammuz 10/June 22/Tuesday Yahrtzeit of R. Yaakov b. R. Meir of 3328 (432 BCE). Noach sent out the raven to see if Romreau, "Rabeinu Tam", one of the flood waters had receded, the greatest of the Tosafists, Yechezkel HaNavi had the vision of [Bereishis 8:1], 1650 (2100 BCE). granson of Rashi, 4931 (1171). the Merkavah, [Yechezkel 1:1] "....And Rabbi Chayim Cohen 3333 (427 BCE). Tammuz 11/June 23/Wednesday (student of Rabeinu Tam) used to Yartzeit of R. Tzvi Hirsh of say that if he had been there the Twenty-four wagon loads of Ziditchoiv, Chassidic Rebbe, day Rabeinu Tam passed away, he handwritten Gemoras were burned authority and commentator on the would come in contact with him in Paris, 5002 (1242). When R. Zohar, author of Ateres Tzvi on the (to participate in his burial, even Meir of Rotenburg, leader of the Zohar and PriKodesh Hillulim, though he was a Kohen)" [Tosafos, Jewish communities of Germany, 5591 (1831). "Oso HaYom", Kesubos 103b] heard the news, he wrote the Kinah "Shaali Serufah Ba-eish" Tammuz 12-13 Public debate began between R. which we say on Tishah B'Av. June 24-25/Thursday-Friday Yechiel of Paris and the apostate Nicholas Donin, to decide the fate Many Jewish communities were Yom Tov of the redemption of the of the confiscated volumes of the destroyed on this date during the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Talmud, at the court of Louis IX of first Crusade, 4856 (1096) and in Yosef Yitzchok, of blessed memory France, 5000 (1240). the Chemlinitzki massacres of in 5687 (1927). 5408 (1648). It was also a We don’t say Tachnun. R. Meir of Rotenburg, leader of the memorial fast day for the estimated Jewish communities of Germany, 50,000 Ukranian Jews killed in "...In the days of Liberation, Yud- was arrested in 5046 (1286). Uman and other cities in the Beis and Yud-Gimel Tamus, the Haidamak uprising, in 5528 Chassidim should Farbreng for Yartzeit of R. Pinchas Halevi (1768). good and material and spiritual Hurvitz, author of Haflaah, blessing... in the Farbrengen they Hamakneh and Panim Yafos Al R. Yom Tov Lipman Heller, author should speak to each other in a HaTorah, student of the of Tosefos Yom Tov, was spirit of brotherhood about Mezeritcher Magid, 5565 (1805). imprisoned 5389 (1629). He strengthening the Shiurim of "...(The Alter Rebbe presented designated this day as a private fast Torah..." [Letter of the Previous his Hilchos Tzitzis and Hilchos day for himself and his Lubavitcher Rebbe, HaYom Yom, Pesach) to those two golden coins, descendants. Tamuz 12] the laudable brothers, the famous Geonim of highest holiness, pillars Tammuz 7/June 19/Shabbos Tammuz 12/June 24/Thursday of the world, our Master R. Yartzeit of Reb Simchah Bunim Birthday of the Previous Shmelke and his brother, our Alter of Ger, the Lev Simchah, Lubavitcher Rebbe, R. Yosef Master R. Pinchas, ...they praised it known for his sefer Lev Simchah, Yitzchok, 5640 (1880). and extolled it very, very much 5754 (1994). VOLUME 21, ISSUE 4 Page 2 The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe that the Rebbe went to the country Pope Gregory IX ordered the was told he was free from exile in in all his years of Nesius. confiscation of all manuscripts of Kostrama, 5687 (1927). That day the Talmud, 4999 (1239). he said the Maamar, "HaShem Is In Yartzeit of R. Chaim b. Moshe Ben My Assistance", [printed in Sefer Atar, the Or HaChayim HaKadosh, Tammuz 17/June 29/Tuesday Hamaamarim, Kuntreisim, p. 179] author of Or HaChayim, 5503 Fast Day (1743). The Fast commemorates five Yartzeit of R. Yaakov b. Asher, "...And we have heard that tragedies in Jewish history: author of the Tur and Pirush Baal now in Poland they greatly esteem 1. Moshe Rabbeinu broke the Haturim Al HaTorah, 5108 him,... because the holy R. Yisrael Luchos, 2448 (1313 BCE). (1348). Baal Shem Tov told of the greatness [Shemos 32:19, Taanis 28b] of his soul..." [R. Chaim Yosef 2. An idol was put in the Beis First printing of the Alter Rebbe's David Azoulai, Shem Hagedolim] Hamikdash. [Melachim II Shulchan Aruch, 5576 (1816). 21:7, Taanis 28b] Yartzeit of R. Eliyahu Yosef of The Previous Rebbe said in the 3. The Korban Tamid was Devrin, great chassid of the name of his father the Rebbe discontinued in the Second Tzemach Tzeded, founder of the Rashab who repeated something Beis Hamikdash. [Taanis 28b] "Tzemach Tzedek" Shul in that was told to him by his father, 4. The Romans breached the Yerushalayim, author of Oholei the Rebbe Maharash, that R. walls of Yerushalayim in Yosef, 5625 (1865). Chayim b. Etter had only daughters 3760 (70), leading to the and he taught them Torah. From destruction of the Second Tammuz 13/June 25/Friday these lessons he wrote the Sefer Beis Hamikdash. [Taanis 28b] The Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Ohr HaChayim and it is called Ohr 5. Apostomus, captain of the received his release papers, 5687 HaChayim HaKodesh. Only a very occupation forces, publicly (1927). That evening he said the few seforim are called with the burned the Torah. [Taanis Maamar, "Blessed Is He Who Has word Kodesh. He used to teach 28b] Done Kindness", [printed in Sefer every Friday night and transcribe it (According to the Talmud Hamaamarim, Kuntreisim, p. 183] after Shabbos. “This teaches every Yerushalmi also on this date in one of you that in your hands lies 3184 (5186 BCE), the Babylonians Yartzeit of R. Chaim HaKohen not only the responsibility of your breached the walls of Rapoport of Levov, student of the own education in the proper Jew- Yerushalayim leading to the Baal Shem Tov, author of Teshuvos ish path but the right education destruction of the First Beis R. Chaim HaKohen and Zecher and kedusha for the entire Jewish Hamikdash.) Chaim, 5531 (1771). people, for this generation and for the coming generations. That is More than 4,000 Jews were killed Tammuz 15/June 27/Sunday why the Rebbe, my father-in-law in Toledo and Jaen, Spain (1391). The Friediker Rebbe arrives home wrote his memoirs and sichos in a after being liberated from his exile language that also girls and Jewish Quarter of Prague was in Kastroma.