A graduation ceremony was held last week at Chabad-Lyon Yeshiva for the bochurim Shluchim who graduated the yeshiva’s semicha program in Lyon, France.
The Bochurim Shluchim have been in the city for the past two years and have combined rabbinical ordination studies at the Chabad-Lyon Yeshiva, along with activities among the city’s Jews in cooperation with the Chabad houses throughout the city.
The activity of the shluchim students in the city has been possible for the past eight years with the vigorous encouragement of Rabbi Shmuel Gurewitz, the shliach to the city of Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes district.
The Smicha studies were conducted in collaboration with the Institute of Rabbi Assaf Engelman, who devoted much energy to the success of the program.
During the graduation ceremony, some of the Baalei-Batim who were impacted by the bochurim praised the program and the enormous contribution that the Yiddishkeit in the city receives from the presence of the yeshiva students in the city.
Speakers included Mr. Roni Mesika, Rachamim Aouzerat, Shmuel Sialom, Rabbi Shmuel Gurewitz, Rabbi Sholom Gurewitz, rabbi Mendel Nemanow and MC Rabbi Shalom Shimon Gurewitz.
Talmidim Hashluchim Mendel Sjian, Shalom Pinson, and Arie Leib Bredoire spoke as well.
Go Lyon!