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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.”
“Pharaoh commanded to all his people: Every son that is born shall be cast into the River” (Exodus 1:22). The Nile was the mainstay of the Egyptian economy and its most venerated god. Therein lay the deeper—still relevant—significance of Pharaoh’s decree: Today, too, Jewish survival depends on our ability to resist the dictum that children must be submerged within an educational system whose focus and goal is the attainment of a “career” and “economic success”.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe