Life, Liberty, and the Lubavitcher Rebbe
For the sixth Rebbe of Lubavitch, Rav Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson — the “Frierdiker” Rebbe or the Rayatz — who lived through a period of unprecedented upheaval and transition for the Jewish People, American freedom and liberty were privileges he did not take for granted. During his historic 1929 visit to the United States, the Rebbe addressed the large crowd that greeted him declaring, “May the Almighty bless this great country which has been a [place of] refuge for our Jewish People.” The Rebbe’s links to the country and to his chassidim there were well-established prior to ...
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