11 Nisan Vignettes

Visiting dignitaries extend their good wishes to the Rebbe at a farbrengen in honor of his 80th birthday.

Chassidim offer a communal blessing to the Rebbe on his 88th birthday. The Rebbe distributes a Chassidic discourse.

The Rebbe distributes Tanyas on his 80th birthday.

“G-d is known in Judah, His Name is great in Israel. His Tabernacle was in Shalem, and His dwelling place in Zion. (Psalms 76:2, 3)

Rabbi Shmuel Lew discovers a Farbrengen of elder Chassidim with the Rebbe’s mother, Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson.

The Rebbe’s 85th birthday at 770.

Artists Vladmir and Gregory Dashevsky present a birthday present to the Rebbe - a painting they made of the Rebbe receiving an Aliyah to the Torah.

In the Haggadah, after listing the many miracles and gifts G-d gave the Jewish People after their exodus from Egypt, we recite: “How much more so should we be grateful to the Omnipresent One for the doubled and redoubled goodness that He bestowed upon us, for He has brought us out of Egypt.”

“I am a wonder to many; but You are my strong refuge.” (Psalms 71:7) The Chassidim sing a Niggun composed for the Rebbe’s seventieth birthday.