Kislev 2 in Chabad History

00:00 Speaker 1 The Yemei Chabad for the second day of Kisliv. We already-- This is the year Tof Shin Mem Ches. So, so we're talking about, uh, thirty, uh, not quite, uh, thirty years ago, um, um, uh, exactly twenty-six years ago. Uh, that was the time that the books and the writings of our Rebbes, uh, were returned back to their place, to the library of Lubavitch. Um, there was the whole court case and, uh, and we learned about the, the various different dates that associated Chei Tevis, and then it was challenged in court, um-

00:44 Speaker 2 Someone had taken the books, right?

00:44 Speaker 1 And they consequently took-taken the books.

00:47 Speaker 2 Another-

00:47 Speaker 1 So a-after all the judgments, after everything in the court cases, uh, these books were finally returned, those that were stolen from the library of Lubavitch, and they were returned back to seven seventy and to the place where they belong. By the way, the Rebbe was, um, very, uh, emotionally and, uh, very charged about the-- He's said that anybody who touches those books and, uh, deals with those books is like holding on explosive and like a bomb. And it was like-- Because, you know, certain things you're not allowed to touch, you're not allowed to do and... But finally, they came back on the second day of Kisliv in Tof Shin Mem Ches. And, uh, Baruch Hashem, you know, the library has grown, and it's, uh, been established. And today, yeah, today you can, you can go down, you know, some they have displays, they have different things. It's a building right next to seven seventy, attached to seven seventy, that is the whole structure, which is the library. And they created a, uh, passageway from seven seventy directly to, to the library. And, um, uh, it's, um, you know, people go to visit there, and there's different, uh, displays and people who are doing research, you know, and, uh, go to, go to the library.