3 of Nissan - תרנ"ה - Birtho of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Slonim

00:00 Speaker 1 Do Yemei Chabad. We'll do, uh, now we'll do for the Gimmel Nisan. This is for this third day of Nisan, and this is in the year Taf Res Nun Hey. That is six hundred and fifty-five. Um, that was the day that, uh, the Hasid, uh, the Rabbi, Reb Levi Yitzchok Slonim, who was the son of Menuchah Rochel, uh, who was the daughter of the Tzemach Tzedek of the Mitla Rebbe, as you know, that she made Aliyah together with her husband, Reb Yaakov Chaim Slonim. And this was a-- So this was the third day of Nisan in the year, uh, six hundred and fifty-five, March twenty-five.

00:43 Speaker 2 Eight.

00:44 Speaker 1 Uh, what?

00:44 Speaker 2 March twenty-eight.

00:45 Speaker 1 March twenty-eight.

00:47 Speaker 2 Eighteen ninety-five.

00:48 Speaker 1 In eighteen ninety-five. So he was born in the city of Lubavitch. He was born, uh, in the year Taf Kuf Tsadik Gimel.

00:58 Speaker 2 Who's this?

00:59 Speaker 1 And this is Reb Levi Yitzchok Slonim. He was a grandson of the Mitla Rebbe. His mother, with her family, they went up to Israel to make Aliyah when he was twelve years old. And eventually, he became like the head of the community in the city of, uh, Hebron, and all the matters of the cities were sort of directed, uh, under him. And in addition, he also was the leader of the, uh, general organization called Kollel Chabad in, in Eretz Israel, in the Holy Land. And he traveled many times to, uh, Russia during the living-- while he lived in, uh, Israel, in Hebron, to, uh, visit with the Rebbes. Uh, first, he was a Hasid of the Rebbe Maharas, and then eventually, he went to the Rebbe Rashab, and he is interned in the city of Hebron next to his mother, uh, Menuchah Rochel. And, uh, that was the, uh, beginning of the Chabad settlement within Eretz Israel, in Israel. Uh, up till the time, you know, unfortunately, they went through a very difficult time when the Arabs massacred, you know-

02:15 Speaker 2 Jerusalem

02:16 Speaker 1 ... many, many of the Jewish people that lived in Hebron, and then they had to... They destroyed it, the, the Yeshiva Toras Emes, which is now the, uh... It's the name for the Lubavitch Yeshiva. It's just, it's called Toras Emes, uh, originally came from Hebron. That was, was founded, then eventually moved to Jerusalem. Uh, Hebron is not that far from Jerusalem. Uh, and I mean, all of Israel is not that by today's, uh, standards, all of Israel, they're trying to slice away some more, uh, some more slivers off of it from here, from all sides. But, um, it was a very important community. Now, within, uh, within Hebron, even today, there's a very strong Chabad presence. Um, and there is what they call the Avraham Avinu Shul, uh, which is also, is connected because they had property. The Rebbes had properties over there inside and, and, and, and, and technically also a, a part of the shul is also, as we learned earlier, I don't remember right now offhand the exact details, had also to do with that. But this, uh, Slonim family is a very prominent family in Israel and Chabad, and of course, now they're all over the world. But, uh, they are direct descendants of the Alter Rebbe through the Mitla Rebbe, and the Mitla Rebbe's daughter, daughter who, uh, married, uh, this, uh, Chaim Slonim. And then this, uh, we're talking about was the son, uh, Levi Yitzchok, uh-