12 Tammuz (5717)

The Alef Kabbala Group (15 July 08) discussed a discourse taught by the Lubavitcher Rebbe on Twelfth Tammuz 1957. This is the day the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneersohn, was released from Soviet captivity in 1927. He had been imprisoned on account of his activism seeking to preserve Judaism throughout the USSR. The discourse explains that a person's sense of relationship with the Essence of the Divine has the power, ultimately, to transform enemies into friends.