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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Halachic Times (Zmanim)
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Jewish History

On the 13th of Tammuz of 1927, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, received the documents authorizing his release from a sentence of exile to Kastroma in the interior of Russia. The Rebbe was actually notified of his release on Tammuz 12, but since that day was a legal holiday, the Certificate of Release freeing him to travel home was issued only the next day. Thus both the 12th and 13th of Tammuz are celebrated as a "festival of liberation" by the Chabad-Lubavitch community. (For more on the Rebbe's arrest and liberation, "Today in Jewish History" for yesterday, Tammuz 12).

Laws and Customs
In Chabad practice, Tachanun (confession of sins) and similar prayers are omitted today.
Daily Thought

To live with the truth, you must be a fool. Because the truth is infinite, and we are all fools before the infinite.

What kind of fool?

A fool who does good with simple sincerity
and disregard for worldly opinion.

Learn from this world we live in:
The world is a fool—only that it is a mindless, stupid fool.

You be a fool who reaches beyond the mind.