Word: gartel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farbrengung, an annual festivity in celebration of Joseph Isaac's release from Communist prison. The courtyard adjoining the Brooklyn headquarters was jammed with Lubavitcher men at benches and tables, many of them in long black coats or full jackets and large-brimmed black hats. Some wore the gartel, a black silk cord bound around the waist to symbolize the distinction between the "higher" and "lower" parts of man. As soon as blue-eyed, black-bearded Menachem Mendel arrived, he was handed a bottle of whisky, which he passed to outstretched hands below him, and almost immediately bottles of whisky...
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