7 Bochurim Return From Cuba

Chabad Friends of Cuban Jewry (CFCJ) welcomed back its multiple emissaries from a successful 3 and a half week activity with Jewish residents of Cuba.

In the lead up to Pesach, the organization put together a comprehensive program providing every Jew on the entire island with all their necessary needs.

The goal was to ensure that our less fortunate brethren living in these remote areas would have the ability to celebrate the Passover holiday with dignity and joy, organizers said.

The visiting Shluchim were Avraham Baron (Howard County, MD), Levi Cohen (Los Angeles, CA), Avraham Deitch (New Haven CT), Yisroel Posner (Boston MA), Menachem Zeiler (Lod, Israel), followed by Shmuel Goldman and Benyamin Abrams (Los Angeles, CA).

Most of these bochurim where studying for some time in South America, whereby picking up on the Spanish language.

They began with door to door distributions containing hand-baked Shmurah Matzah, wine and many other goods; meals and delicacies. This is in addition to the Spanish translated Haggadot and beautiful guides distributed in 14 cities and towns across the across a 1100km strip of the island.

Followed with the intense preparations for CFCJ’s multiple seders, there were two grand public Seders in the capital of Havana and one on the east coast of the island.

As every year, Chabad chooses another of one of these cities and towns of the interior the CFCJ’s emissaries celebrate the seders together with the local community members.

There were additional activities culminating with the Moshiach Seuah, celebrated towards the end of the holiday with Benyomin Abrams and Shmuel Goldman who culminated the holiday with the community accordingly.

“Thank G -d, the emissaries were very successful in their multiple missions namely as every Jewish home in this 1100km strip was personally visited, aligned with one of the famous messianic prophecies: “Ve-atem Teluktu L’Eachad Echad Beis Yisrael” – “And you, the house of Israel, will be gathered one by one”, noted Rabbi
Shimon Aisenbach, Director of CFCJ.