Kislev 13 in Chabad History

00:00 A date over here in Yemei Chabad for the thirteenth day of Kislev, this was in the year Taf kuf samech ches. This corresponds to the fourteenth of December in eighteen oh seven. Um, this is sort of a, a little bit of a mysterious date based on what it says over here. Uh, it says it was the wedding of Reb Boruch, who was a grandson of the Alter Rebbe. Uh, now, uh, of course, the Alter Rebbe's father's name was Boruch, and this was a grandson, it says, of the Alter Rebbe, whose name was, was, was Boruch. It is brought down in the book in which they have the collection of all the different ma'amarim that the Alter Rebbe said in the year Taf kuf samech ches. In that year, uh, that this wedding took place, in the second section on the page over there, it's brought down a discourse, a ma'amar, of Chassidus that the Alter Rebbe said during the wedding of his, uh, grandson Boruch. And there is a debate over there exactly who this Boruch is. They're not sure. So there is an, a, you know, a question. Okay. Uh, also on the fourth-- on the thirteenth day of Kislev in the year Taf shin mem vav. That's the twenty-sixth of November in nineteen eighty-five. So, um, this was the day that the, uh, federal, uh, court, uh, ruled that the Rebbe does not have to come and testify. The... This is still related to the whole story with the books. They were trying...

01:39 What they were trying to do is they were trying to embarrass the Rebbe by having the Rebbe come and testify. You know, there is halakha in the, uh, brought down in the, uh, in the Talmud and in the Code of Jewish Law that a king is not called upon to testify, and you don't testify against a king. That's sort of on a, on a separate level, and it's, it's undignified, and it's not becoming for a king to be either, uh, testifying or test-testifying about him. He's beyond reproach. So the fact that they wanted to-- they tried very hard from the other side, uh, to try to get the Rebbe to have to come down to the, uh, federal court to testify, to put the Rebbe on the witness stand. But the, the, um, the court decided that the Rebbe is exempt from testifying. That also happened on the thirteenth day of Kislev, which was taken as a very, uh, special, uh, sign of Hashem's help to protect the Rebbe and the Rebbe's honor. And that was on, again, like this was on the fourth-- on the thirteenth day of Kislev.