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Here's My Story — 716.-shmini-atzeres-5787 — Bereishis 5787
Выпуск: Here's My Story — 716.-shmini-atzeres-5787 — Bereishis 5787. Темы: не определены автоматически. ב“ה ISSUE תשפ׳׳ז, כ׳׳א תשרי,הושענא רבה For this week’s episode 716 Hoshana Rabbah, October 6, 2026 of Living Torah, visit JEM.tv HERE’S my THE DAY I WAS ASKED STORY TO LEAVE 770 Generously sponsored RABBI HERSHEL ZAKLOS by the M y grandfather, Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Avrutick, was an authentic Chabad chasid. had complained to the Rebbe: “With the older students running off to 770,” they each said, “the backbone of לע“נ ר‘ ישראל יעקב וזוגתו מרת קריינא ע“ה לאקשין our yeshivah is gone!” And so the Rebbe delivered an entire talk, during that audience, to the students who ע“י בניהם ר‘ נחמן ור‘ אברהם ומשפחתם שיחיו had come from Montreal and Paris. mystory@jemedia.org | myencounterblog.com | © Copyright, Jewish Educational Media, 2026 continued from reverse me, and that year I had a Rosh Hashanah like I’d never This is why the soul is sent down into this world, said had before — thanks to my new study partner. the Rebbe, and this is why the Jewish people were sent into exile — and this is also why “particular individuals During that period, the Rebbe also wrote a letter to my are tasked with a descent to a specific place.” In all of mother, addressing some of her and my father’s anxieties these cases, the intent is not the descent itself, but the about me being in yeshivah instead of college. After first opposite: “They are given the ability and the privilege to blessing them to have “true Jewish nachas” from their rise to a higher level… by fulfilling, in that distant place, son, he wrote: “G-d, who takes care of everyone, will the mission that was placed upon them.” surely watch over him too … with everything he needs now, as well as in the future.” Thank G-d, I’ve been able In support of this idea, the Rebbe cited the example of to make ends meet for all the years since. there should not be seen as a “punishment, G-d forbid, nor a distancing, G-d forbid, but rather the opposite.” But in 1969, when I was already an older student, a group That is, we were being asked to go back to Montreal of us decided that the time had come for us to transfer because we had the ability to “make the world a dwelling from Montreal to the yeshivah in 770 so we could be place for the divine” from there, and that through our near the Rebbe. So, the king sent the prince t
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ב“ה ISSUE תשפ׳׳ז, כ׳׳א תשרי,הושענא רבה For this week’s episode 716 Hoshana Rabbah, October 6, 2026 of Living Torah, visit JEM.tv HERE’S my THE DAY I WAS ASKED STORY TO LEAVE 770 Generously sponsored RABBI HERSHEL ZAKLOS by the M y grandfather, Rabbi Yerucham Fishel Avrutick, was an authentic Chabad chasid. He had a long beard and was a devoted disciple of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe. When I was growing up in 1950s Montreal, I used to spend time in his house on Shabbat until he passed away. My parents wanted me to be a good Jew, so they sent me to the Chabad school, although they weren’t quite chasidim themselves. And so the sense of warmth I felt towards Judaism came from my teachers, from the environment of that school — and from my grandfather. After finishing high school, in 1961, a friend of mine named Yitzchok Mann suggested that we go work as counselors in a Chabad summer camp in the United States, but my parents didn’t let me. I was supposed to go to university the next year, and they thought that I should be getting ready. Still, we decided to go anyway, and I was already at the camp when I wrote a letter telling my parents where I was. They were upset, At the end of…