13 of Tamuz - Rebbe Rayatz received the document of his freedom

00:00 Speaker 1 Over here, the Yemei Chabad in the the 13th of Tammuz. This is in Taf Resh Pe Zayin in 1927. So it says over here that, you know, that's the day that the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak receives his document that he was free from exile. That was on the 13th day of Tammuz. After receiving that document, many people gathered in the, uh, apartment where the Rebbe lived, the pre-- Thank you.

00:35 Speaker 2 You're welcome.

00:36 Speaker 1 Where the previous Rebbe lives. And the, uh, Rebbe, um, made a fabregen, made a gathering. And at that time, he said the maamar, uh, the Hasidic discourse that begins with the words of Baruch Hagoel L'chayavim Tovis, blessed is the one that, uh, grants those who are, uh, guilty favors. Uh, this is a, um, a special blessing one would make the berakhah hagomel. You know, we all don't consider ourselves to be worthy, that we're entitled to God's favors or God's goodness, so we consider ourselves, uh, guilty, chayavim, but still we're blessing Hashem for granting us and doing us favors, doing us good. That was the maamar that he said as soon as he went out. And then on the next day, on the fourteenth day of Tammuz, and this was, uh, ten o'clock in the morning, the Rebbe left the city of Kastroma, and now he was a free citizen. He had no, no obligations anymore. He wasn't under, uh, the, uh, arrest or, or exile. And he was also, uh, escorted by two, uh, messengers from the Jewish community in Kastroma. They sent along two people with the Rebbe. And on Friday, uh, this was, uh, Friday, that's the fifteenth day of Tammuz, the Rebbe, the previous Rebbe came to his home in Leningrad. But as we'll see that, um, the Rebbe didn't stay that much longer in Leningrad, in, you know, in Petersburg, because the people there, the KGB and the, the, the, the communists were after him still, and they threatened to arrest

02:33 Speaker 1 him every moment. So he moved to another area, to Malachka. He moved, he moved away from Leningrad at that time.

02:39 Speaker 2 In those days, they weren't allowed to really move around.

02:41 Speaker 1 Well, depending the, the, different, different areas and, you know, different people. But, you know, they did... But he couldn't stay anymore. They didn't want him anymore.

02:48 Speaker 2 They used to have to get documents to move from one place to another.

02:50 Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And especially the big cities, you had to have, uh, special-

02:54 Speaker 2 You weren't really allowed.

02:54 Speaker 1 But this was, this was after that. Th-this-- You, you're talking that-- What you're talking about, that precedes the communist, uh, regime.

03:02 Speaker 2 No, we gotta go.

03:03 Speaker 3 No.

03:03 Speaker 2 No.

03:03 Speaker 3 When I was there in seventy-two, they couldn't go from city to city