Rabbi Shais Taub | 19 KISLEV | Live from Crown Heights

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so let's let's set the tone here historically speaking today is the day that the balatanya or the altarebes we refer to him in Chabad schneer Zalman of liade was freed from imprisonment he faced Capital charges were treason punishable by Death and he was held for 53 days of imprisonment and interrogation in the then capital city of Imperial Russia the city that we know and Yiddish has petterberg some call it Saint Petersburg called it the Leningrad for a while and uh the significance of the altadaba's freedom was not just that this crisis of this Capital sentence was averted but much more than that as We Know when the altareba was in prison he was visited by his Richa Magid who by the way his yard site is today yeah and uh the balcantov both of whom were already in Illinois in the world of Truth but they came and they visited the altareba in his cell and they informed him of the behind the scenes reason why he was standing trial we know that nothing happens down here on the physical plane if it doesn't devolve from the spiritual worlds in this particular case revealed to the altareba even more than that the the court case in the the terrestrial Realm was a parallel of a court case going going on in the best in shul Milan the in the Heavenly Court and the particular charges against the altareba where that of proliferating the secrets of the Torah now what's wrong with proliferating the secrets of the Toyota well that's why they're called secrets it's not a secret if you tell it let alone proliferate it

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