Colel Chabad Dinner Welcome Video - 19 Kislev

[Music] fall of 1799 a prison wagon rolls slowly across the Russian landscape from the town of Laotian em to the capital of st. Petersburg a distance of some 500 miles the prisoner rabbi Schneerson Manav Lee Adi known as the alter rebbe the founder of the Habad movement rabbi Schneerson Minh is accused of treason for which the penalty is death what had this rabbi done to be accused of treason against the Tsar Khalil Habad the charity rabbi Schneerson Minh had established a decade earlier to help support the most indigent people living in the then desolate holy land which was then part of the Ottoman Empire the arch enemy of Czarist Russia for 53 days the alter rebbe languished in prison he would not deny the charges on the contrary in his own unflinching written testimony he would proudly proclaim his support for his fellow Jews in the Holy Land he highlighted that this is an obligation upon each Jew to do the same on the 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev exactly 219 years ago tonight the alter rebbe o was released from prison not only would rabbi Schneerson be free to continue his monumental efforts of building the worldwide Hasidic movement but he would be allowed to continue the work of Khalil Habad first was the class taken to develop the nursery manure a girl to the Easter on the lemon gospel tell yourself I'm very shocked ages but also the union consumers about the truck kinda like Arriba groceries - super thunder when they me sleep I believe the family bro elicit indicated that I was basically went to date the Euro Democratic occasion for me to be awkward the world has changed since the alter rebbe is liberation Wars famine industrial revolutions population shifts scientific breakthroughs but the mission of kollel Chabad has not indeed in our time our Reba took it upon himself to revitalize kollel Habad to address the challenges of dynamic changes in the Holy Land a new young society new immigrants Holocaust survivors victims of terror war widows and orphans the impact of the oldest continuing operating charity in Israel is evident everywhere in Israel soup kitchens daycare centers nonprofits supermarkets holiday food distribution free loan funds immigrant Aid help for widows and orphans dental care for children the list of kollel Habad humanitarian services goes on and ladies and gentlemen welcome to kollel Habad good tess Kislev celebration you