ב"ה
The Rebbe Speaks About the Tzemach Tzedek
Thirteenth of Nissan — Yartzeit of the Tzemach Tzedek
|
Video | 6:53
The third Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Tzemach Tzedek, once asked his grandfather, the Alter Rebbe: Why do we say that our forefather Jacob not only dwelled in Egypt for seventeen years, but those were his best years? Egypt was a very immoral land; how could this be?
|
Video | 8:44
During the time of the Tzemach Tzedek, Kronstadt was a fortified city near S. Petersburg.
Among the soldiers stationed there were a number of “Cantonists” – young Jewish men
kidnapped from their parents by the Czarist regime and conscripted for 25 years or more in
the Russian army.
|
Video | 7:53
Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch, known as the Tzemach Tzedek, lived at a time when the Jews of the Russian Empire faced many anti-Semitic decrees at the hands of the czars.
|
Related Topics
- Lubavitcher Rebbe (401)
- Jewish History (58)
- R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch (102)