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The 28
th of Sivan marks the historic day in 1941 when the Lubavitch Rebbe and Rebbetzin arrived safely on American shores after escaping Nazi-occupied France. They settled in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, where the previous Rebbe, the Rebbe Rayatz, had established Lubavitch headquarters a year earlier at 770 Eastern Parkway.
A few days after they arrived, the Rebbe led a
farbrengen, a
chassidic gathering, in 770. It was on Thursday night, between the second and third day of Tammuz. The
farbrengen began around 9 p.m., and continued until three in the morning.
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The Rebbe came in with his
siddur in his hand. He requested that the elder