New Maamar Published in honor of Chof Daled Teves

In honor of the 200th Yohrtzeit of the Alter Rebbe on Chof Daled Teves, Kehot published a Maamar, which was compiled by Vaad Hanachos b’Lahak and was given over by the Frierdiker Rebbe on the eve of Chof Daled Teves in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in Baltimore before a crowd of around 1,500 in the year 1930. Update: English translation of the Maamar added.

The Frierdiker Rebbe visited the United States on a tour to strengthen Yiddishkiet. He arrived in Elul 1929 and returned to Europe in Tammuz 1930 – ten years before arriving in the United States permanently after fleeing the Nazis during the holocaust.

In addition to the Maamar the Vaad included an Igros Kodesh of a letter that the Frierdiker Rebbe wrote describing the farbrengen.

Update: Noach Shavrick, a CrownHeights.info reader, sent us a translationg he made of the Maamar and told us “we live in Baltimore and my great grandfather was there when the Frierdiker Rebbe said the Maamar in 1930, we are 5 generations in Baltimore and Chabad.”

Click Here to download a PDF of the Maamar

Click Here for the English translation

Pictures from the Sefer ‘Toldos Chabad in America’

6 Comments

  • yona

    wow!
    thank you for posting the Maamar and letter that the Frierdiker Rebbe wrote describing the scene.
    I love Rabbi Raskin’s annotations.

  • in the lll

    Great – I can learn this in Honor of the 200th Hilula-Yartzeit of the Alter Rebbe.
    Big Thanks to Kehot!
    nice pictures of the Frierdiker Rebbe

  • Do the math......

    “a crowd of around 1,500”
    In the letter the Rebbe writes 800/900 men and around 400 women.

  • From Baltimore

    There is clearly an awakening in Baltimore learning this maamar fresh again.

    Thank you for posting.