A Serendipitous Tramway Encounter

It was during the time that the Rebbe Rayatz was in prison; the summer of 5687/1927. These were dark days for the Jews of the Soviet Union. The evil communist empire did all it could to eradicate Judaism. With an iron fist, they stamped out any attempt to regenerate Jewish life in the country. Through a process that was ongoing, hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced to abandon their traditions. Their children were born, raised and educated like gentiles.

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A Midnight Drama on the Streets of Leningrad

The first hours after the Frierdiker Rebbe’s arrest in the hands of the GPU thugs, 92 years ago.

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MY PERSONAL REDEMPTION STORY

Nothing prepared Yoni Atiyah, a spiritually lost boy at the time, for the dubious experience of being in jail for five days in a damp, dark cell somewhere in the Ukraine. It was there though that he had his personal redemption.

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TIDINGS OF REDEMPTION

The news spread and even before the Rebbe returned to his host, the shochet, they already knew the good tidings. When the Rebbe arrived, he saw the Chassid, R’ Michoel Dworkin dancing around the outside of the house, holding a small bottle of vodka and singing, “Nyet, nyet …” The young son of the shochet danced on the fence with feet in the air and his hands down below. * A description of the release of the Rebbe Rayatz from exile, based on diaries and stories of Chassidim. * Presented for 12-13 Tammuz.

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