By COLlive reporter
A large journey of 420 students from college campuses across the holy land of Israel has begun with the destination being New York on Wednesday.
Participants of the trip have spent a year learning and being tested on the Alter Rebbe‘s Tanya and Gemara Brachos as part of a special program of Chabad on Campus Israel.
The director of the program, Rabbi Moshe Shilat said: “Approximately 40 years ago, a Shliach on Campus published a book on Emuna and science based on the Rebbe‘s Sichos and letters. When the work was completed, he brought the book and the Rebbe Said: “Instead of bringing books, bring the students to me.”
“We saw by the Rebbe a special fondness for the campus students around the world,” he said. “The students do not come from religious or traditional homes and for all of them, this is the first encounter with the pages of the Gemara and Tanya.”
The students are being accompanied by Shluchim and Shluchos and they will be spending time visiting Lubavitch Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights and the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens.
This is so progressive! Girls learning gemarah! Maybe it should also be introduced to “unzereh” girls in our mosdos. Wonderful! (Even though chazal called it tiflus).