Living Torah Archives

The Rebbe encourages chasidim as they sing a nigun of the third Rebbe of Chabad, the Tzemach Tzedek, during a farbrengen marking his passing.

Song lyrics: “How much we must be grateful to the Omnipresent One for the doubled and redoubled goodness He has bestowed upon us; for He has brought us out of Egypt...” (The Haggadah)

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.