What is the significance in the Jewish calendar of the 28th day of the month of Sivan?
To the seasoned Chabad-Lubavitch chassid, the date is immediately recognizable as the day on which our Rebbe and Rebbetzin, of righteous memory, arrived safely in America in 1941, after escaping Nazi-occupied France.
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What is the significance in the Jewish calendar of the 28th day of the month of Sivan?
To the seasoned Chabad-Lubavitch chassid, the date is immediately recognizable as the day on which our Rebbe and Rebbetzin, of righteous memory, arrived safely in America in 1941, after escaping Nazi-occupied France.
A group of us were recently discussing whether or not this day is something worthy of discussing with those who are not familiar with all of the important dates in the Rebbe’s life.
“What is the point?” my friend said, explaining that although to devoted followers of the Rebbe, the date that the Rebbe and Rebbetzin came to America is certainly of great interest, it’s simply not a feeling that is transferable. You either care about it or you don’t.
Perhaps there is some truth to that. Maybe I cannot and, indeed, need not even try to make the 28th day of Sivan matter to somebody else the way it matters to me. But in case someone is interested to know what it does mean to me, I will try here to explain.
To me, the 28th of Sivan is the sounding the shofar and it’s praying Kol Nidre. It’s lighting the menorah and it’s lighting Shabbat candles. It’s sitting in the sukkah and it’s sitting at the Seder. It’s dancing with the Torah and it’s reading the Megillah.
