A Message In Black Regalia

By COLlive staff

The fourth and most successful year yet of Chabad of Carnegie Mellon University ended on a high note with Rabbi Shlomo Silverman delivering the invocation at this year’s commencement ceremony in Pittsburgh, PA.

It was a kind of graduation for Chabad, as the seniors who graduated this year were the freshmen when Chabad of CMU began, said Silverman, Director of Chabad of CMU and the chairman of the Council of Religious Advisors at the university.

“These students watched Chabad’s Shabbat dinners grow to four times in size from the first year and have witnessed tremendous growth in many other areas as well,” he said.

Silverman and his wife Chani said they look forward to continued growth in the years to come.

“G-d willing, the upcoming school year will begin with a brand new full service kitchen for the Chabad house which will enable Shabbat dinners to be prepared and served with the proper space needed,” Chani Silverman said.

The freshmen who watched Chabad of CMU begin, had the distinct opportunity to hear their rabbi deliver the invocation at their graduation ceremony, attended by 10,000 people.

Rabbi Silverman gave the graduates a strong message to take with them into the real world: “Ultimately, it will be the fruit you bear, your accomplishments that you share with others and your acts of goodness and kindness, that will be your legacy that will live well beyond your allotted time here, in this world.”

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