By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Zalman Goldberg has brought students from Oholei Torah in Crown Heights to a small synagogue in Manhattan’s nostalgic Lower East Side this week.
It was part of Goldberg’s new venture of leading walking tours around the unique sights and smells of New York’s Jewish community of yesteryear.
The tours are organized in partnership with Gray Line, the popular red double-decker sightseeing agency and Goldberg uses his knowledge and research to enrich visitors with authentic and insightful information.
A particular spot he brought students to was the Boyaner Kloiz on East Broadway and recalled how the Rebbe once visited the location which produced a touching black and white photo.
It was during the levaya of R’ Shlomo Hornshtein, a descendant of the Rebbe Maharash and a brother of the Rebbe’s brother in law who had been killed in the Holocaust.
The Boyaner Rebbe at the time, Rabbi Mordechai Shlomo Friedman, attended as well and was having difficulty to make it down the staircase from his shul, according to an account on the website RebbeClips.com.
The Rebbe asked the Boyaner Rebbe’s gabboim if it was permissible to help their elder rebbe walk down the stairs. When they answered in the affirmative, the Rebbe ran quickly and went to hold the Boyaner Rebbe’s arm to support him.
The Lubavitcher Rebbe would give Shalach Monos on Purim to only 3 individuals – a cohen, a levi and a yisroel. The Boyaner Rebbe would be the Yisroel all the years until his passing in 5731.
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This picture of the Kloiz brings back memories of our family davening there each Shabbos and Yom Tov . Of the holy Boyanner Rebbe zt”l wishing us a גוט שבת …….
My father is in this famous picture standing behind The Lubavitcher Rebbe and my Zaidy (maternal ) is holding the other arm of the Boyaner Rebbe.
The close friendship the two Rebbes had and also with today’s Boyaner Rebbe שליטא is part of the connection between Rhuzin and Lubavitch.
Of course Rabbi Goldberg would have this Shul as part of his Lower East Side tour.
Hatzlocha
M. Feiner
היה חסיד באיאן עוד מאירופה גם אביו וזקנו
בהיותו קרוב משפחה עם הרבי הוא היה נוסע אליו ולכן גם הרבי יצא להלויתו באיסט סייד
“The Lubavitcher Rebbe would give Shalach Monos on Purim to only 3 individuals – a cohen, a levi and a yisroel. The Boyaner Rebbe would be the Yisroel all the years until his passing in 5731”
no, the Rebbe gave a cohen, levi, yisroel.
The yisroel for most years was R’ Chadakov.
In addition, the Rebbe sent sometimes shalach monos to special people, including the Boyaner,& Amshinover Rebbes.
He was not the standard “yisroel” for shalach monos.
Certainly in the earlier years the rebbe gave to more than 3
See igros to him and is family for details.
It was a great experience thank you so much Rabbi Zalman Greenberg.
I’ve seen this Photo many times, never understood why the Rebbe made an exception to go out of Crown Heights. especially in those years. 70’s and after. understanding the closeness between the 2. I kind of got it, but still there must be much more to it.
If anyone has any more details etc. please share. Thanking you in advance
Wow
הוא לא היה נכד, אלא אשתו היתה נכדו של האדמו”ר מאברוטש, ובן דוד ראשון להרבי הריי”ץ. ר’ שלמה היה בן דוד ראשון של ר’ משה הורינשטיין, חתנו של הרבי מהר”ש
הרבי היה שולח משלוח מנות להאדמו”ר מבויאן, לא לר’ שלמה הורינשטיין
R’ Shlomo’ wife was a niece of Rebbetzen Sheterna Sarah’s sister, Sheina Brocha Dulitzky, his wife who was a decentent of RYY of Avrutch. He was a relative of R’ Moshe Horenstein, son in-law of the Rebbe Maharash.
Reb Shlomo Horenstein was not a grandson or the Maharash and not a brother of Reb Mendel Horenstein.
Reb Shlomo was a grandson of the Rebbe R’ Yosef Yitzchok Schneersohn of Avrutch (son of the Tzemach Tzedek, son in law of the Cherkaser, brother of Maharash and shver of the Rashab).
פחה נוסף היה ר’ שלמה הורנשטיין שהי’ גם נכדו של האדמו”ר ר’ יוסף יצחק מאוורוטש זצ”ל סבו של הרבי הריי”צ נ”ע. ר’ שלמה הי’ דר בשנותיו האחרונות בארה”ב והיה לו קשר חם עם הרבי נשיא דורנו והיה מגיע רבות ל770, הרבי היה שולח לו משלוח מנות מדי
So touching