A Brief History
The third Lubavitcher Rebbe is known as the Tzemach Tzedek. A grandson of the Alter Rebbe, the founder of Chabad Chassidus, the Tzemach Tzedek brought the Chabad movement to unprecedented heights in all matters. He was born on the 29th of Elul, Erev Rosh Hashanah 5549 (1789).
Utilizing the Day Correctly
Every man, woman and child, should make certain to utilize this day by increasing in Tzedakah and in many other positive matters, and in particular, by studying the Torah teachings and fulfilling the instructions of the Tzemach Tzedek.
Follow in His Footsteps
In the merit of the Tzemach Tzedek, we should add in those matters through which the Tzemach Tzedek chiefly expressed his service of Hashem. They are: the dissemination of Torah, and particularly Chassidus, and promulgating the service of prayer and of performing every single Mitzvah with embellishment, particularly the Mitzvah of Tzedakah.
Torah and Tzedakah
In 5749 (1989) the Rebbe instructed: We should make certain to utilize this two hundredth anniversary of the Tzemach Tzedek’s passing in order to increase in the study of the Tzemach Tzedek’s Torah teachings, and to give Tzedakah in honor of the occasion – ideally in multiples of two hundred.
200 Pennies
Two hundred pennies – a goal that is within reach of everyone, including children. Those who wish to add in this matter could give two hundred coins of greater value, or two hundred dollar bills and the like – doing so further adds to the abovementioned matters.
