Hey, its a new year! Hebrew December calendar
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'Chassidic New Year' Begins Wednesday Night
Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidim around the world will launch a flurry of activities Wednesday night and Thursday to celebrate Yud Tes Kislev -- the Chassidic New Year. The date, the 19th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev on the Jewish calendar, is celebrated as the Rosh HaShanah of Chassidim.

It marks the release from a Czarist Russian prison in 1798 of the founder of the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic philosophy, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1812).

In the fall of that year, the rabbi was arrested and charged with threatening the imperial authority of the czar. He was jailed in the island fortress located in the Neva River, in Petersburg.

During his interrogations, investigators forced the rabbi to reveal the basic tenets of Judaism and Chassidic philosophy and practice. Fifty-three days after he entered the prison, Rabbi Schneur Zalman was exonerated of all charges and freed.

Because the rabbi perceived the events as an echo of those taking place in the Heavenly Court, he regarded his release as a vindication of his efforts to disseminate teachings about Chassidism, thus marking with the 19th of Kislev the "birth" of the Chassidic movement.

Public teaching of Chassidic philosophy had begun nearly 100 years earlier with the emergence of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (1698-1760), a leader who believed that such knowledge should not be the sole purview of select Kabbalists, but rather should be shared also with the common man.

The Baal Shem Tov's disciple, Rabbi Dov Ber, known as the "Maggid (storyteller) of Mezeritch" is also connected with the 19th of Kislev. On that day, 26 years before Rabbi Schneur Zalman was liberated, the Maggid passed away. Before he died, he informed the disciple who became the Alter Rebbe, "This day is our 'yom tov' (holiday)."

regina,

On the Hebrew Calendar it's New Year, Happy New Year to the Jewish people.

I follow the Calendar established as from Christ's Birth, or close thereabout...therefore, our New Year is a Few weeks away as yet.

By the way how do you say Happy New in Hebrew anyways! Just curious!!!

Blessings in Christ,

Valerie

good morning Valerie! sister I follow the "regular" calendar also. this new year date was interesting to me because there are so many calendars, and who knows what the actual day is on God's timeline. That blood moon that just happened was significant imho. As when someone winds up their watch that is off, resetting it to the correct time. Ok, now we know what time it REALLY is. In the final 7 yrs with bookend blood moons. That is only my opinion of course.
Happy New Year is said Shana Tova

regina, Wonderful language!

Shana Tova, to the Jewish people!

Shana reminds me of the word "Shine"
Tova, reminds me of the words "to you"!!!

May His Light "Shine to/on you"!

Thanks for sharing!

Blessings in Christ,

Valerie