By COLlive reporter
A Miami Beach Street is set to be named in memory of Rabbi Pinchos Aharon Weberman obm, a longtime respected Rabbi of the Miami Beach Jewish community.
A street naming ceremony will take place at 7055 Bonita Drive in Miami Beach, FL in front of the Ohev Shalom Shul, on Monday December 11, 2023 at 2 PM.
Rabbi Pinchos Aharon Weberman was one of the founders of the Jewish community in Miami Beach, Florida who founded the Ohev Shalom congregation and served as the Rov there for 62 years.
Rabbi Weberman was born and raised in new York, and after getting married he was introduced to the Rebbe and developed a very close relationship. The Rebbe encouraged him to use his talents and wisdom to help build a Jewish community and in 1960 he chose Miami Beach, with the Rebbe’s encouragement.
At the time, Miami had zero Jewish infrastructure and no kosher food. He was extremely influential in starting the first Jewish institutions there. His children were from the first students in the Lubavitch Educational Center (LEC).
He passed away in 2022.
He was a great man. He instituted so many of the many Jewish lifestyles that we take for granted now in Florida.
He was a trendsetter and yet, not for a moment, did he let up on his religiousness/frumkeit .
He was a selfless leader.
Chaval Al Deavdin!
Probably One Of If Not THe First Shliach To Florida, Always Kind & Looking To Advance Torah & Mitzvot; Any Can Imagine The Opposition He Had Originally;
But We Know That Only Made Hi Stronger;
He Was Very Proud To Send His Children To Learn in Lubavicher Yeshivos Particularly In NY, Where BH They Where Zocha To Give Him Much Nachas
Y.chei Zichro Boruch
He was soft-spoken. Ye, you can
tell he was a man of tremendous
spiritual strength and conviction.
When, in 1977, the politicians
banned discrimination against
people of an immoral lifestyle,
by refusing them apartments,
he was among those in the fore-front
to get this legislation repealed,
This, FORTUNATELY, succeeded, even
though just for a few years.
Oh, off the subject. Have even
the Frum Velt changed on this matter?
Why was I, at first, afraid to use the term,
“fortunately?” But, fortunately, I finally did.