Tuesday Sh'vat 13 5703
Torah Lessons (5703)	Chumash: B'shalach, Shlishi with Rashi. Tehillim: 69-71. Tanya: But the ten (p. 85)...in the world. (p. 87).

Yahrzeit is observed on the anniversary of the day of death even the first year, and even if the day of burial was much later than the day of death. [1]

When my grandfather (R. Shmuel) was seven, his father (the Tzemach Tzedek) once answered him: The kindness and special quality in G-d's making man upright, [2] to walk erectly, is that though he walks on the earth he sees the Heavens; not so with beasts that go on all fours; they see only the earth.

   

Notes:

1. (Back to text) Note: This day (Sh'vat 13) marks the Yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Shterna Sara in 5702 (1942). She was the mother of the Rebbe, R. Yosef Yitzchak.

2. (Back to text) Kohelet 7:29.