(19 Kislev) Gut Yom Tov! Have anything inspiring to share?

amother

Yesterday at 5:18 pm

It's Yud-Tes Kislev, the Rosh Hashana of Chassidus!

Please share something that is meaningful to you.

Here's mine:

After the Alter Rebbe was freed from jail, he was mistakenly taken to the home of a misnaged, who had actually been involved in getting him arrested in the first place. The misnaged took the opportunity to hurl all of his accusations against Chassidus at the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe said that this experience was more painful to him than the 53 days in jail.

Before leaving the misnaged's home, the Alter Rebbe politely finished his tea and thanked his host.

The Rebbe asks why this happened. Once the Alter Rebbe was released from jail, it meant that the Heavenly Court had already agreed that Chassidus could be spread. Why did he need to be further "imprisoned" in this misnaged's home?

It was not for the Alter Rebbe's sake, it was for our sake. The Chassidim might have felt a sense of superiority over the misnagdim who had failed in their quest to get rid of the Alter Rebbe. The Alter Rebbe showed an example for the Chassidim of how to treat the misnagdim (and by extension anyone else we might be angry at), with kindness and respect, no matter what they did.

SYA

Yesterday at 6:33 pm

Gut Yom Tov!
לשנה טובה בלימוד החסידות ובדרכי החסידות תכתב ותחתם

The Alter Rebbe said: whoever will rejoice in my simcha (of Yud Tes Kislev, Chag Hageulah), the Alter Rebbe will take him/her out from distress to abundance.

The Alter Rebbe made Yud Tes Kislev a holy day, like Yom Kippur, that all that a Yid requests, his request will be fulfilled.

Ladies, let us rejoice on this day, as the Alter Rebbe said, and from this merit abundance of good in all aspects of our lives.
And may all our tefillos and bakashos on this holy day be fulfilled letovah, in a revealed way.

Gut Yom Tov