By COLlive reporter
On Monday, a series of nine seminars on Judaism came to a close in nine different regions throughout Russia, including Birobijan in the far east of Russia. Each regional seminar had participants from neighboring cities.
The seminars were organized by “YaHaD”, the umbrella organization that helps thousands of Jewish youth throughout Russia. This round of seminars included hundreds of participants and brought in the best Russian speaking lecturers from all over the world. The founder of “YaHaD”, Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar, participated personally in the seminars that took place in Moscow and in Siberia.
Mrs. Talya Samanina and her teenage daughter Malka flew especially to Moscow from their city of Orsk, in order to participate in the seminar that took place at the Machon ChaMeSh Institute. They arrived with Saratov Airlines and were scheduled to return to their city of Orsk yesterday, Sunday, on the only flight for that day.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Wilansky, who heads “YaHaD”, asked them to postpone their tickets by one day in order to stay until the end of the seminar, which will also include a tour of the Jewish Tolerance Museum in the Marina Roscha neighborhood. The mother and daughter agreed, and new tickets were immediately purchased for them.
A few hours later they heard the news and understood that this decision had saved their lives. The flight that they had originally been scheduled to fly with crashed a few minutes after takeoff from the Domodedovo airport of Moscow, and all of its 71 passengers were killed.
Even before the names of the victims were published, a command room was opened at the Shaarey Tzedek Jewish Charity Center in central Moscow to clarify the condition and names of the passengers, as part of the regular contact with needy families and the adult Jewish population in Moscow.
The rabbi of Saratov and Chabad Shliach Rabbi Yaakov Kubitchek immediately appealed to the management of Saratov Airlines to track down the names of the victims and to help their families.
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Anti aircraft missiles for the Syrian army.
An Israeli plane was downed yesterday from those Russian weapons and right away a Russian plane goes down without yidn in it.
Just wandering if the two things have to do with each other and wow how fast…
Thank you hashem for saving all the yidden who were not on the flight! Hashem only does good.
Yes
Thank you for publicizing this amazing miracle!!
Plz explain
This same mother and daughter who didn’t go on the flight
Were the ones inspired from the mitzvah tank and kept shabbes?
While this is a miracle, sure, let’s not forget the other 70 people who died, and the many hundreds more affected by their deaths. A tragedy in every sense of the word.
Great idea ! And BH there was a miracle to publicize !
As I read this breathtaking story, another memory came back to me. I have an acquaintance living in the city of Orsk, with a daughter who attends the local public school. Some years ago, the Moscow Jewish community organized a series of Mitzvah tanks to visit different cities in Russia and one of them stopped in Orsk. The young shluchim met with local Jews and somehow acquaintance, who had not been religious, met and were very taken with the Mitzvah tank activists. Ultimately, they began to observe Shabbos and their young daughter, who continued to study in the public school,… Read more »
so it can become a worldwide miracle story!!
yes we want Moshaich now
Moshiach NOW