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The anniversary of the passing of the Alter Rebbe, the founder of Chabad Chasidism, is on the 24th of Tevet each year. 1963, however, wasn t just any year: Since it was the 150th anniversary of the passing, the Rebbe placed a great emphasis on that date for the entire , it all started months earlier. I was a young yeshivah student at the time, learning in Crown Heights. While the older students studied in 770, we learned in a building that was about a fifteen minute walk from 770, on Bedford Avenue. On the 18th of Elul, the Alter Rebbe s birthday, the Rebbe announced that there would be an unscheduled farbrengen a chasidic gathering where he would speak publicly.
Generously sponsored by the. Finally, at 10:25, or several moments before, the Rebbe walked in, looking pale, with a solemn look on his face. Usually he would start off the proceedings with a l’chaim, but that night, he just started to speak. After a few
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