Girls Visit Recovered Shul

By COLlive reporter

Over 100 girls, 6th grade students at Bais Rikvah schools in Crown Heights, traveled last week down Eastern Parkway to visit Sea Gate, the private, gated community in Brooklyn.

Located at the far western end of Coney Island, Hurricane Sandy devastated Sea Gate in October 2012. The area sustained significant damage and numerous houses were destroyed.

The Congregation Kneses Israel of Sea Gate, led by Shluchim Rabbi Chaim and Rivky Brikman, was in ruins as well with the basement floor flooded and hundreds of seforim destroyed.

But the Brikmans were in high spirits when the girls visited the shul last week with their teachers as a preparation for Yud Shevat, the day the Rebbe assumed leadership of Chabad Lubavitch.

Rabbi Brikman began the program with speaking about the importance of the name Beis Rivkah and the role the students have in the global mission of the Rebbe.

Mrs. Brikman walked them through the inspirational story of how they survived the hurricane and helped fellow Jewish people in need. She also shared the miracles they experienced throughout and after, helping them rebuild what has been destroyed.