Guest speaker Featuring Rabbi Mottel Friedman Educator, author and speaker. YUD TES KISLEV This day is known as the "Chag HaGeulah- Festival of Redemption," and the "Rosh Hashanah of Chassidut." It begins tonight at sundown and continues until nightfall tomorrow. On this day in 1798, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi - the first Chabad Rebbe - was liberated after spending 53 days in prison in Czarist Russia on trumped-up charges.