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The Camp Job No One Wanted

What did the Rebbe advise a teenage Mashi Lipskar to do when she desperately wanted a job in Camp Gan Israel in Detroit and was told all jobs were filled? Full Story

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For me it started with a song
January 19, 2015 10:58 am

I had heard that you composed “First there was Reb Yisroel the heiliger Baal Shem Tov…”. I have been an admirer ever since. Thanks for carrying on the Rebbe’s message.

my role model
January 18, 2015 10:36 am

You are a kind, beautiful and gracious lady. You stand as a role model for chabad and the Rebbe and your family and your community can be so proud of you. You are in inspiration to the Jewish community xxx

Its not just a story
January 18, 2015 1:05 am

this woman is the real deal

Beautiful
January 17, 2015 8:45 am

Heart-felt piece, with some important life lessons. Thanks for sharing

GREAT!!!!
January 16, 2015 10:15 am

My years in CGI Detroit were the greatest! The achdus, the singing with Mashi and her guitar and all the fun! Thank you Rebbe for having blessed her to go to camp!!!
I owe my frum life to Mashi!!! She’s the greatest!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Love it!!
January 15, 2015 9:28 pm

I love so much what the Rebbe said about making your house warm and how you rephrased it in a nutshell that I would like to frame that part of this article and hang it in my kitchen! I might just do that! Thank you!

Camp CGI 1968
January 15, 2015 3:47 pm

You were my favorite counselor! You cared about us, you inspired us! You made me want to be a chossid!
M. (K,) G.

mashy
January 15, 2015 1:47 pm

i was in your sem class and in camp with you. i was with you when you made up song first there was yisroel the hailike balshemtov…..and my husband was a great friend of your husband,, those were the days, we need Moshiach Now. hatzlocho…thanks for sharing.

What a WOMAN!!
January 15, 2015 12:01 pm

Mashi your love dedication and warmth to the Children in 1st Grade cheder is a true reflection of what the Rebbe Told you.

There are 1000’s of Warm homes through the world because of you and the work you have done in South Africa for the past 40 plus years.

A true beacon of light.

Thank you for sharing this personal story with us.

So Rich
January 15, 2015 11:47 am

I so appreciate this particular story. The Rebbe didn’t tell you exactly what to do to become a warm gracious hostess. The advice he gave, had to unravel and become incorporated in your life. You had to learn in the process, make it become part of you so that you can actually welcome people in your own style. Very powerful and obviously more effective when that actually becomes part of you. An experience of growth.

Thank You
January 15, 2015 11:24 am

for sharing. this is so helpful.

Thank YOu
January 15, 2015 10:00 am

for sharing!

Profound, rich & beautiful
January 15, 2015 9:35 am

Thanks for sharing the richness of your generation, free to choose / mediate / synthesize between various worlds, and the Rebbe’s compassionate, understanding guidance in your journey.
Small question on chronology: you were born in Brooklyn in 1949, moved at age four = 1953, at the behest of the Previous Rebbe, who passed away in 1950: was there a 3 + year difference between the Previous Rebbe’s behest and the actual move?

wow!
January 15, 2015 9:29 am

beautiful story!!

Beautiful story
January 15, 2015 9:15 am

Thank you, Mashi and Collive, for sharing this. it really inspired me. Yes, the Rebbe’s careful listening to every single person, no matter who, and his response to their needs — absolutely a life-altering experience to be a recipient of this sort of loving-kindness. May we all take the lessons we’ve learned from the Rebbe and put them into action so Moshiach will come today.

Beautiful and inpsirational
January 15, 2015 8:48 am

I am so moved by these stories of the Rebbe gently and compassionately guiding young people through the challenges of life. He always found the perfect, EXACT remedy for each situation, in a way that would build and strengthen the youth.
His answers are exquisite in their simplicity – and Divine in their wisdom. Thank you for sharing such a lovely and personal story! (beautifully written too!)

Philadelphia days
January 15, 2015 8:35 am

Wonderful written piece Mashi. I warmly remember your wonderful family from way back then- when we too lived in Philadelphia from 1954 [together with some other Lubavitch families. Pinson, Itkin, Zakon] till moving to NY for chinuch purposes in the early 60’s. We all attended the same school. Beth Jacob Day School there. [I don’t recall it being called Bais Yaakov Seminary.] Very special memories of our years there. Schooling, shuls, mivtzoim with the European Jews who so wanted to blend in with the Americans but still spoke Yiddish. You might enjoy reading the book “The Way it Was” about… Read more »

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