The Frierdiker Rebbe* related:
When I was a little boy, I once wondered whether angels are able to calculate numbers. When I asked my father, he replied, “That’s a good question! But I am certain that the malach Michoel counts all the Tehillim that one says, and with it, he creates a chandelier that lights up, Above and Below, for that person and for his children.”
Following this, my father would often ask me, “How is your chandelier doing?”
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*RaYYatz
Yud Shvat, [1950] Yom Hillula of RaYYatz, Admor Yosef Yitzchok, sixth Chabad Rebbe, who instituted saying the yom Tehillim every day after davening, as the Tehillim is divided by the day of the month, and on Shabbos Mevorchim, to say the entire sefer Tehillim before davening.
A year later, on Yud Shvat, the Rebbe officially took over the leadership of his saintly father-in-law as the seventh Rebbe. V’chol hash’vi’in chavivin -Medrash Rabbah, Vayikra 29,11.
Yud Shvat is the anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch, of blessed memory, (5710/1950). On the same day, one year later, his son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, assumed the mantle of leadership of Chabad.
During a farbrengen– a Chasidic gathering that evening, the Rebbe delivered his inaugural discourse titled Bati Legani— “Enter my Garden,” marking his official acceptance of the position of Rebbe.
He also made a statement establishing his “agenda” as Rebbe of Chabad. Freely translated it reads in part, “If you see a person who has love of G-d but lacks love of Torah and love of his fellow, you must tell him that his love of G-d is incomplete. And if you see a person who has only love for his fellow, you must strive to bring him to love of Torah and love of G-d—so that his love toward his fellows should not only be expressed in providing bread for the hungry and water for the thirsty, but also to bring them close to Torah and to G-d.”
