A global virtual event will take place Thursday, 22 Teves, to mark the 10th Yartzeit of the legendary Mashpia and Kabbalist, Reb Volf Greenglass, OBM.
The Evening of Chizuk and Inspiration will be streamed by Chabad.org and will take place Thursday, January 7, at 8:00 PM and will air live on COLlive.com.
The event will feature renowned speakers, including scholar and lecturer Rabbi YY Jacobson, author and lecturer Rabbi Shais Taub, London Shliach Rabbi Shmuel Lew, and author and lecturer Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Director of the Meaningful Life Center. Musical entertainment will be by singing star Eli Marcus who will lead the singing of Niggunim.
The event will commemorate the yartzeit of Rabbi Greenglass, as well as the Hilula of the Alter Rebbe, and will feature words of inspiration and memories of Rabbi Greenglass as a Mashpia in Tomchei Temimim of Montreal for over 60 years.
Rabbi Greenglass, a devoted Shliach of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Rebbe, merited to inculcate Chasidic values and Chabad Chasidus teachings to over 3 generations of students.
Many Shluchim from across the globe still continue to spread his stories and teachings that they heard as students from Reb Volf.
Menachem Zev Greenglass (halevi) was originally born to a non-Chabad family in the Polish town of Krasnik, near Lublin, and was sent to learn in the Chabad Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim in Lodge and Otwock where he acquired his vast knowledge in Torah, Kabbalah and Chassidus.
After fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe to Shanghai, China, Rabbi Greenglass traveled from there to Montreal, Canada, as one of the 9 shluchim sent by the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, to cultivate the Jewish community.
Their first achievement was establishing the Rabbinical College of Canada, also known as Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim. Thousands of students from nonobservant families got the taste and love for Judaism in the school. they became the many Torah observant grandparents of today’s frum community.
Rabbi Greenglass, or Reb Volf, was soon appointed as the Head Mashpia and spent many years teaching and inspiring thousands of Lubavitch students who went on to become shluchim, community leaders, and chassidishe yungeleit and professionals around the world.
He was known to say, “You should never ‘put down’ (criticize) a student, you should ‘elevate’ him, and show him his unlimited positive potentials.”
Together with his longtime friend Rabbi Leibel Groner obm, who served as the Rebbe’s secretary, he made the first attempt to document Chabad customs in the monumental book “Sefer Haminhagim.”
In Montreal, he was always referred to by members of the Jewish community as a Tzaddik and a Malach (a righteous man and an angel). The Rebbe once called him “my Mekubal (Kabbalist).”
A book in Hebrew compiled by Reb Volf’s son-in-law, Montreal Shliach Rabbi Dovid Cohen, contains many of Reb Volf’s farbrengen stories, Minhagim, and teachings.
The book quickly sold out, and is currently in its second printing. A translation of this inspiring book into English, which elaborates on his life, his lessons and teachings, is in the works. The book, titled “The Mashpia” is in its final stage of editing by Merkaz Anash and is set to be released in the near future.
The global Chabad community is invited to say lechayim with the live broadcast, take on good resolutions, and may the merit of the Alter Rebbe bring us all the redemption with Moshiach and blessings to all.
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