The Neis of Yud Bais Tammuz 5687/1927 Started 17 Years Earlier
In early 1910, the Rebbe Rashab* called in five of his chassidim. The Rebbe Rashab said to Reb Zalman Havlin, “I am sending you to Eretz Yisroel to revive Chabad there.” The Rebbe said that people will come to Eretz Yisroel in droves. The chassidim did not understand the magnitude of this statement at that moment.
The Rebbe sent three of the other chassidim to places in Russia where there were many Jews at that time. The Rebbe Rashab said to the youngest of them, the Radam, Reb David Meir Rabbinowitz, “I am sending you to Boston in America. Your son will save the life of my son.” The Radam relocated his family to Boston.
Seventeen years later, when the RaYYatz* was arrested, the Radam, Harav Dovid Meir Rabbinowitz, got a two-word telegram from the RaYYatz’s daughter: Rebbe arestirt [in Yiddish: the Rebbe was arrested]. Rabbi Rabbinowitz understood the grave danger the Rebbe RaYYatz was in from the Russian Communist regime. -- Continued with the hishtadlus here in America by the Robbinowitz family – ==== Told by the shliach in Springfield, Massachusetts, Harav David Edelman.
*Rashab: Admur Shalom DovBer, 5th Chabad Rebbe
*RaYYatz Admur Yosef Yitzchok, 6th Chaad Rebbe, only son of the Rebbe Rashab
Yud Beis Tammuz: The Rebbe RaYYatz’s birthday and the day he was freed from prison. On the 15th of Sivan, the Rebbe was arrested, officially, for counter-revolutionary activities. [What he was really doing was running 600 underground yeshivos plus anything to keep the Jewish faith alive, which was illegal according to the Russian constitution.] Eleven other clergymen of different faiths were arrested and killed that day. The Rebbe was sentenced to capital punishment. On gimmel Tammuz, the sentence was commuted to three years in exile in far-off Kostroma. Two weeks after he came to Kostroma, on yud beis Tammuz, the Rebbe was told that he was totally free to go. On yud gimel Tammuz, the Rebbe RaYYatz left for home.
U FARATZTA RABBI SHALOM BER MUNITZ
