GUT YOM TOV!

 

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 מהרש"ב הרב שלום דוב בער זצ"ל .  In the 1930s,  הרב יוסף יצחק שניאורסאהן זצ"ל  (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 & is to be celebrated by all future generations as a יום משתה ושמחה וגיל לנו ולזרעינו-- עד העולם The Kherson Geniza was proven to be a complete forgery Chabad is the only one who still considers them authentic