RELIGION: B’nai Avraham celebrates liberation of Rabbi who founded Chassidim
Chabad Chassidic Jews celebrate 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev as a day of liberation for founder and spiritual leader. It was on this (Hebrew) date in 1798 that Rabbi Schneur Zalman, the founder of Chabad Chassidism, was liberated from prison in czarist Russia. Congregation B’nai Avraham will mark this date and honor the memory of the Alter Rebbe, author of The Tanya and Shulchan Aruch, on the 200th anniversary of his death with a Farbrengen on Sunday, December 2.
The word “Farbrengen,” from the Yiddish, means “joyous gathering.”
Rabbi Moshe Feller of St. Paul, Minnesota, will be the guest speaker at the Farbrengen, hosted at Congregation B’nai Avraham, Brooklyn Heights’ Modern Orthodox synagogue. The program begins at 5 p.m. and a light dinner will be served. Readers wishing to RSVP may call 718-596-4840, ext. 18, or email [email protected]. Rabbi Aaron Raskin is the spiritual leader.