18 Elul

This shabbos is Chai Ellul which is the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov (in 1698) and the birthday of the Alter Rebbe (in 1745). In addition it is the yarzeit of the MaHaRal of Prague (in 1609) and the day that the Besht revealed himself to the world in 1734 on his 36^th birthday;