By COLlive reporter
The Great Synagogue in Jerusalem, where locals and tourists flock to pray and view architectural splendor, is welcoming Chabad in its midst.
Chabad Center of Rechavia has started this past week to use the synagogue’s Beit Midrash Be’er Miriam hall on the entrance floor.
Friday night and Shabbos morning davening using Tehilas Hashem – Nusach Ari siddurim were held there on Shabbos Hagadol.
“Our current space in the Windmill of Rechavia is only 700 square feet large,” Shliach Rabbi Yisroel Goldberg said about the storefront he has on 8 Ramban Street, behind the Prima Kings Hotel.
The minyan which he founded a year and a half ago has quickly grown, drawing an eclectic crowd of Mizrahi, charedi and Lubavitchers. On Shabbos the center is regularly filled to capacity.
Rabbi Goldberg turned to Asher Schapiro, Chairman of the Board of the Great Synagogue, centrally located on King George Street and styled after the Beis Hamikdash.
“We thank the committee members, headed by Chairman Mr. Asher Shapira, for opening the doors of the Great Synagogue to us, thereby helping Chabad of Rechavia to broaden our Outreach work in the community,” Goldberg said.
Regular weekday and Shabbos activities – the morning Kiddush, mincha, seder niggunim, havdala and weekly video of the Rebbe (immediately after Shabbos) – will continue to take place in the center on Ramban Street.
On the first night of Pesach, Chabad of Rechavia held a community seder for Jews of all ages at Heichal Shlomo building on King George.
“We are witnesses to the Rebbe’s Brachos on a daily basis, and we are grateful for them,” Rabbi Goldberg said. “Just make a Keili, and the Rebbe will make sure to fill it.”
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ive met many rabbis in chabad and many of them in different venues…
he is very unjudgemental of people based on chassidic and financial status…
i think the rebbe would be proud of his representative
We spent a few weeks in Israel, and we were so happy to have that Lubavitcher Shul at the center of Jerusalem, Rabbi Goldberg was such a amazing person to be around.
Or is it unused on Shabbos? (I’ve only ever davened there during the week.)
We davened there last shabbos. It was beautiful rabbi goldberg and his wife were amazing!