On the 10th of Shevat 5710 (1950), the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, passed away on Shabbat morning.
A year later, at a gathering of Chassidim marking the first anniversary of the passing, the late Rebbe’s son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, delivered a Chassidic discourse (maamar) entitled Basi L’Gani, signifying his formal acceptance of the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
A new publication by Yeshivas Ohel Moshe of Chabad of the Congo in Africa includes diaries written by Rabbi Avrohom Gerlitzky and Rabbi Lipa Brennan about Yud Shevat events with the Rebbe over the years.
The existence of a Yeshiva in the Congo in Africa is itself a story that should be told.