THE YOM TOV OF כ"ו תמוז

 

Part 1   THE YOM TOV OF כ"ו תמוז TODAY, time to put on the Shtreimel & party   R. Shmuel Gurary A"H a wealthy Chabad Chasid, purchased hundreds of letters of the בעל שם טוב that were found in the Kherson Geniza. He presented them to ​his Rebbe the Maharshab, Harav Shalom Dov Ber zt"l .  In the 1930s, R. Yosef Yitzhak,Schneerson zt"l (Frierdiger Rebbe)  published some three hundred letters, purportedly from  the pen of the בעל שם טוב & his Talmidim. in the Chabad journal, "התמים".  There are two letters in the התמים where the בעל שם טוב and some of his Talmidim declared כ"ו תמוז as a  Yom Tov to be celebrated by all future generations as a יום משתה ושמחה וגיל לנו ולזרעינו-- עד העולם