By COLlive reporter
Coinciding with Gimmel Tammuz and their Annual Fundraising Dinner, Chabad North East London & Essex announced that Rabbi Yossi and Rivka Posen are the newest Shluchim to Epping, Essex UK.
The Posens will serve Epping, North Weald and Theydon Bois, located some 17 miles north-east from the center of London, and surrounded by the northern end of Epping Forest, and on a ridge of land between the River Roding and River Lea valleys.
They were appointed by Rabbi Aryeh and Devorah Sufrin, Head Shluchim to Essex UK, who have been sowing the seeds within the wider Epping area for some three years, creating the platform for the establishment of a brand new Chabad center in the Epping area.
The new Chabad in Epping will be the third active Chabad center in North East London & Essex.
“We are thrilled that after a 3-year search, we have confirmed the appointment of Rabbi Yossi & Rivka Posen and their young family (the latest addition as recent as a week ago!),” Rabbi Sufrin MBE told COLlive.com.
“They have visited our community and spent time with friends & residents, showing a lively enthusiasm and initiative in being the suitable candidates to open a brand new full time Chabad Centre, catering the growing needs of the local residents, that have been identified so far and so many more, waiting for these dedicated Shluchim to connect with them even further.”
Rabbi and Mrs. Posen, currently reside in Kfar Chabad, Israel, where he has been working as menahel ruchni of the English-speaking semicha program in Oholei Temimim. They will be taking up their new post in Ellul in time for the forthcoming new Jewish year and Rosh Hashana.
“We are humbled by the great zechus to go out on the Rebbe’s Shlichus,” said Rabbi Yossi Posen. “We are looking forward to hosting the first ever minyan for Rosh Hashona and Tekias Shofar in the history of Epping.”
Rabbi Sufrin said that the new Shluchim “will strengthen our Family of Shluchim together with us. They will be joining our team at present, colleagues Rabbi Odom and Henny Brandman in Buckhurst Hill, Mrs. Brocha Muller in Gants Hill, Rabbi Mordechai and Blimi Wallenberg in Woodford, making a real impact across Essex UK for some four decades.”
Chabad North East London & Essex cover numerous other areas within the area, with regular services and activities down to Westcliffe on Sea. “We hope in due course will have dedicated Shluchim of their own,” Rabbi Sufrin commented.
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mazel tov on both your new arrival and your forthcoming arrival in the UK. Wishing you lots of success in your new adventure and look forward to meeting you all.
We are so excited for this new venture and development of Chabad N E London & Essex, with its third full time Chabad House.
We look forward to greeting you and working with you forging even greater ties with our current shluchim and IYH impacting the wider community in an even greater way. Hatzlocho