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Daily Archives: December 20, 2005

The Black Carriage

Yrachmiel Tilles – Chabad.org

During the “intermediate days” of the festival of Sukkot of 1798, an armed officer arrived in Liozna to arrest Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of the Chabad movement. Deciding that it would be advisable at this point to take the biblical advice “Hide yourself for a brief moment” (Isaiah 26:20), the Rebbe slipped out of a side door. The officer returned to his headquarters empty-handed.

Back in the house, the Rebbe decided that if the agent were to return, he would allow himself to be arrested. Some say that he decided this only after consultation with Rabbi Shmuel Munkes, one of his close Chassidim, who happened to be in the Rebbe’s home at the time. Reb Shmuel reputedly said to the Rebbe: “If you are a true Rebbe, you have nothing to fear by being arrested. If you are not, you deserve whatever they will do to you (!), for what right did you have to deprive thousands of Chassidim from enjoying the pleasures of this world?”

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From Chabad.org: On the 19th of Kislev of the year 5559 from creation (1798), Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi -- a leading disciple of Rabbi DovBer of Mezeritch (see previous entry) and the founder of Chabad Chassidism -- was released from his imprisonment in the Peter-Paul fortress in Petersburg, where he was held for 52 days on charges that his teachings threatened the imperial authority of the Czar. More than a personal liberation, this was a watershed event in the history of Chassidism heralding a new era in the revelation of the "inner soul" of Torah, and is celebrated to this day as "The Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism."

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From Chabad.org: On the 19th of Kislev of the year 5559 from creation (1798), Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi — a leading disciple of Rabbi DovBer of Mezeritch (see previous entry) and the founder of Chabad Chassidism — was released from his imprisonment in the Peter-Paul fortress in Petersburg, where he was held for 52 days on charges that his teachings threatened the imperial authority of the Czar. More than a personal liberation, this was a watershed event in the history of Chassidism heralding a new era in the revelation of the “inner soul” of Torah, and is celebrated to this day as “The Rosh Hashanah of Chassidism.”

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Transport Workers Union Local 100 board announced at 3 a.m. to expand their strike to all MTA properties effective immediately.

With the city in the midst of another nerve-wracking countdown to a threatened transit strike, hopes dimmed late Monday that negotiators would be able to reach a deal to avert a crippling shutdown of the subway and bus system.

The midnight strike deadline passed with no word on whether transit workers would go on strike. The union board was meeting at its headquarters to discuss its next move.

Talks broke down about an hour before the deadline, and the Transport Workers Union and Metropolitan Transportation Authority offered bleak assessments of the prospects of avoiding a strike.

FULL STRIKE BEGINS

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Transport Workers Union Local 100 board announced at 3 a.m. to expand their strike to all MTA properties effective immediately.

With the city in the midst of another nerve-wracking countdown to a threatened transit strike, hopes dimmed late Monday that negotiators would be able to reach a deal to avert a crippling shutdown of the subway and bus system.

The midnight strike deadline passed with no word on whether transit workers would go on strike. The union board was meeting at its headquarters to discuss its next move.

Talks broke down about an hour before the deadline, and the Transport Workers Union and Metropolitan Transportation Authority offered bleak assessments of the prospects of avoiding a strike.

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As most people have feared the TWU has announced a full scale strike starting now [3:00am] all buses and trains will not be running. Here I will try to outline what will be happening now.

All alternate side parking regulations will be suspended for the duration of the strike.

Public schools would open two hours later than usual.

Cars entering the busiest areas of Manhattan must carry a minimum of four people (the entire Manhattan south of 96th St.).

Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road will offer local shuttles in the Bronx and Queens.

Yellow cabs could pick up more than one fare at a time.

And The Strike Commences – THE MTA STRIKE OF 2005

As most people have feared the TWU has announced a full scale strike starting now [3:00am] all buses and trains will not be running. Here I will try to outline what will be happening now.

All alternate side parking regulations will be suspended for the duration of the strike.

Public schools would open two hours later than usual.

Cars entering the busiest areas of Manhattan must carry a minimum of four people (the entire Manhattan south of 96th St.).

Metro-North and the Long Island Rail Road will offer local shuttles in the Bronx and Queens.

Yellow cabs could pick up more than one fare at a time.

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