By COLlive staff
A full list of names will be brought in and read at the Ohel of the Rebbe in New York on Chof Av, the day of the yartzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneersohn, of blessed memory.
The names mentioned will be those who are contributing to the campaign “Honor the Rebbe’s Father” to fulfill the Rebbe’s personal request to establish kollels for elderly Jews under the name Tiferes Zkeinim Levi Yitzchok in memory of the Rebbe’s father.
The kollels were established at the request of the Rebbe to honor the memory of his father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, chief rabbi of the city of Dnipropetrovsk in Ukraine during the bloody Bolshevik revolution and the subsequent Communist oppression.
Despite terrible persecution directed at religious leaders in those days, Rabbi Levi Yitzchok remained fearlessly defiant in strengthening Jewish learning and practice in his city and throughout the Soviet Union, Chabad.org notes.
Rabbi Levi Yitzchak was eventually arrested, tortured, and subsequently banished to exile in a remote village in Kazakhstan. He passed away on the 20th of Av and was buried in the Jewish cemetery of the city of Almaty (formerly known as Alma-Ata).
His resting place is the site of annual pilgrimage of Russian Jews and Chabad chassidim who fly in from around the world to daven and request blessings for themselves and those they care about.
When donating to the kollels in Rabbi Levi Yitzchok’s memory, make sure to indicate the names you want to be mentioned for blessings in New York.
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Donate today at HonorTheRebbesFather.com
On Wednesday, 120 members of the kollels from Tzfas traveled to Jerusalem for a special visit to the Kotel where each had the opportunity to daven. From there, they continued to the new aquarium that was opened in the city and marveled at the underwater creations.
The group then joined a crowd of 400 elder men and women for “An Evening With Chabad,” marking the yartzeit of the namesake of their kollels. Speakers included the Mashpia Rabbi Yoske Friedman of Kiryat Malachi and Rabbi Yitzchok Marton from Colel Chabad
At a farbrengen that followed, kollel teachers Rabbi Gedalya Melamed and Rabbi Baruch Arister highlighted the great self-sacrifice of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok in keeping the flame of Judaism alive despite the oppression of the Soviet regime.
“It was wonderful to see the results of this great activity of Colel Chabad, of person who studied and know Yiddishkeit, halacha and Chassidus joining together in the large family of Tiferes Zekeinim Levi Yitzchok,” commented Rabbi Dovid Kotlier.
“It is a special privilege for us to strengthen and empower the holy teaching and the personal request of the Rebbe to establish educational institutions for pensioners in memory of his father’s father,” said Rabbi Sholom Duchman, Executive Director of Colel Chabad. “This is certainly a great nachas for the Rebbe and a great privilege for all those who are engaged in this holy activity.”
This year, in honor of Chof Av 5778, Colel Chabad is launching a crowdfunding campaign to fulfill the Rebbe’s request and establish 4 new kollels in Israel for the elderly. Donate today at HonorTheRebbesFather.com
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