By COLlive reporter
This Wednesday evening, alumni of Oholei Torah Educational Institute of Crown Heights will be gathering for a farbrengen.
Organizers timed the event to coincide with the annual Kinus Hashluchim convention, when many come in from around the world.
“It is a chance to sit with your fellow classmates, melamdim and mashpi’im, and reminisce of the old good “bochurshe yohren,” Oholei Torah said.
The MC will be organizational consultant R’ Mendel Duchman of Los Angeles. Rabbi Yossel Baumgarten from South Africa will share what it was like to be a student in the very first years of the yeshiva and a miraculous story.
A tribute will be made to two outstanding talmidim, R’ Levi Deitsch and R’ Mordechai Schapiro, OBM by their classmates Rabbi Chaim Greisman from Stockholm, Sweden and Rabbi Meir Geisinsky from Cedarhurst, NY.
Rabbi Yosef Rosenfeld, Executive Director of Oholei Torah, said this evening surely gives the Rebbe great nachas as talmidim from all through the years sit together, in achdus, surrounded with their teachers and hanholah.
The alumni reunion is open for all those who learned at any time in Oholei Torah, said the event’s coordinator Rabbi Nosson Blumes.
“Whether you’re a Shliach, community member, or still a bochur, this is where you belong Wednesday night, sitting together with your classmates, back in Oholei Torah!
“The reunion, being on the eve of the Kinus Hashluchim, gives both a chance for the shluchim to attend, and also alumni living in Crown Heights to join in the excitement and energy that is so evident during these days of the Kinus.”
No reservations are required, and there is no entrance fee.
As we r just before the kinnus hashluchim, we all are in awe of the great work the Shluchim do, y can’t we in crown heights have the same feeling about our schools and institutions, I went to previous Oholei Torah alumni reunions, and they were just that, a nice time, sitting with friends and classmates, and even being inspired by the speakers. There was no other agenda, or at least it was not felt in any way… So come on, give ourselves in crown heights some credit as well!
Reb Michoel was saying
“I was by the Rebbe and I spoke about the income , the money situation, of the yeshiva, and the Rebbe told me, “Your Toil, and My Money”
For a while thereafter I worked and raised whatever I could, and then what was missing, I gave a duch to Rabbi Hodakov (the Rebbe’s secretary) and he gave what was lacking (for that month).
all sounds nice and good, but whats the purpose of this whole event? – Cant be they are doing something just to be nice!