"The Story of 24 Teives—The Alter Rebbe's Last Days

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shais Taub’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Tonight, we are observing the yard side Hilula of the Alter Rebbe Bal Tanya Baal Shulchan Aruch. Uh, change the lighting. Okay. That's that's the Ohr of Shnei Ohr. The Alter Rebbe was the posek in Nigleh and in Nister as he is implied by his name Shnei Ohr, the two lights. the two lights. And his two great works, the Tanya, which is the Torah Sheb'al Peh of Chassidus, and the Shulchan Aruch HaRav, which is his uh revision and uh new pres- presentation of of of the Halachos of Shulchan Aruch. Tonight's presentation is chiefly a biographical look at the life of the Alter Rebbe, and more specifically at one very specifically at one very particular Tkufa, or uh period in the life of the Alter Rebbe, the the months, roughly about 140 days, leading up to the event that we commemorate tonight. So, we're going to be speaking about focusing on the last few months of the Alter Rebbe's life. Uh before before we do so, I just wanted to share a uh to share a uh an idea, a thought, a Torah thought. Happens to be You hear something good, and you want to share it. You know, it's like some people, money burns a hole in their pocket. Others, you hear a good vort, and you you have to share it. So, uh Shabbos, I was actually in Crown Heights. They had the uh the young professionals Shabbaton. So, I was able to get away for a little bit and daven in 770. And Friday night Chaim Shmuel Brook from Lahak came over

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1. 0:00Tonight, we are observing the yard side Hilula of the Alter Rebbe Bal Tanya Baal Shulchan…
2. 6:11I hereby. It's in the first person. I. Harenni, I. This is the only place in…
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5. 24:34Then there was a second imprisonment and a second liberation which was the liberation of Gimel…
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7. 36:48that's the cooler Alma that the altar ever agreed that if Napoleon's going to win the…
8. 43:01this. And indeed that was the case that even after they were defeated, but you know…
9. 49:12says, why is Maisios important? Why is the stuff that you do in the physical world…
10. 55:28And basically what that means is that the spirit of liberation that the that the that…

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