The resting place of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, in the small town of Haditch, Ukraine. Rabbi Schneur Zalman passed away on this day in 1813. (photo: Sholom Eichler)
The Small Town Where Ukraine’s Jews Go to Gain Strength
Eduard Zhak still remembers the day 12 years ago when he first visited the resting place of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad-Lubavitch, in the small town of Haditch, Ukraine. It was then, like today, the 24th of the Hebrew month of Tevet—the anniversary of the great rabbi’s passing in 1813—and Zhak was there together with a group from his home city of Dnepropetrovsk, about a four-hour drive away.
