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3 Tammuz - The Rebbe's Yahrtzeit
3 Tammuz marks 32 years since the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory.
3 Tammuz this year is Thursday, June 18, 2026.
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The verse states: “He gave his own bread to the destitute.” The Talmud explains that this refers to Moses giving the Torah to the Jewish people. But every word of the verse is precise:
Her mother's warning would echo in her mind for years to come.
Moses sent spies to scout out the city of Ya’azer, which the Jews would have to cross in order to enter the Holy Land.
When it came to the Menorah in the Holy Temple, the commandment was to light it anew
every day; and to light it, as Rashi says, “until the flame could rise up on its own.”
Our sages have said, "Sleep is one sixtieth of death" (Talmud, Berachot 57b). If sleep is a form of death, then death is a form of sleep -- but a temporary withdrawal of vitality for the sake of reawakening to a higher quality of life.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe