By COLlive reporter
Photos: Shneur Shiff
Crown Heights philanthropist Rabbi Yossi Michelashvili inaugurated the new mikvah “Mei Eliyahu” in the Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Chabad in Or Yehuda, a city in central Israel.
Michelashvili, his wife Yael Michelashvili and children Yocheved, Batya and Yitzchok Meir dedicated the mikvah in memory of his grandfather and cousin R’ Eliyahu ben Moshe and Eliyahu ben Yitzchok, of blessed memory.
Remarks were shared by the Head of Beis Din Rabbonei Chabad in Israel Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yaroslavsky, Or Yehuda’s Chief Rabbi Tzion Cohen, Rabbi Yitzchok Mozgerashvili, Rabbi of the Sharet-Ramet neighborhood in Lod.
Speaking in the name of the students and the hanhala, the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Sholom Ber Hendel thanked the Yossi Michelashvili for his generous dedication to allow the bochurim to purify themselves every morning before davening.
Participants were given as a memento Toras Menachem – Vol. 73, a compilation of the Rebbe‘s sichos and maamarim from 12th of Tammuz, through 29th of Elul 5733.
Also distributed was the new book Hamazkir about the dedication of Rabbi Leibel Groner OBM as the secretary of the Rebbe for over 40 years. The first copy was given to his son, Rabbi Mendel Groner, Mashpia at the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiryat Gat.
