Each year on Yud Beis and Yud Gimmel [12-13] of the Jewish month of Tammuz, the same dates as the Rebbe's release from exile, this chasid would celebrate his freedom, due to following the Rebbe's inspired advice.
Source: Adapted by Yerachmiel Tilles from A Chassidische Derher, Tammuz 5772, pp.28-29. Based on Pninei Hakeser Vol., I p 85.
Connection: This Shabbat, the tenth of the Jewish month of Shvat, is the 74th yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rayatz (and the 73nd anniversary of his son-in-law officially ascending to the Leadership of Chabad).
Biographical note: Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn [of blessed memory: 12 Tammuz 5640 - 10 Shvat 5710 (Jan. 1880-June 1950)], known as the Rebbe Rayatz, was the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, from 1920 to 1950. He established a network of Jewish educational institutions and Chassidim that was the single most significant factor for the preservation of Judaism during the dread reign of the communist Soviets. In 1940 he moved to the USA, established Chabad world-wide headquarters in Brooklyn and launched the global campaign to renew and spread Judaism in all languages and in every corner of the world, the campaign continued and expanded so remarkably successfully by his son-in-law and successor, Rabbi Menachem-Mendel Schneerson.
Footnotes:
[1] Forerunner to the KGB
[2] An independent country at the intersection of Europe and Asia, home to Caucasus Mountain villages and Black Sea beaches. (Google)
[3] Kostroma is a city in western Russia, about 200 miles (320 km) northeast of Moscow.
[4] Named for the eldest son of the Tzemech Tzedek, the third Rebbe of Chabad.
