By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Yosef Hecht, Chief Rabbi of Israel’s southernmost city of Eilat, recently returned from a speaking tour in the Chabad community in Melbourne, Australia.
He appeared in front of chassidim, Nshei Chabad, business people, bochurim and members of Chabad centers, inspiring them all to strengthen their bond with Torah and Mitzvos.
A farbrengen he led for the bochurim of Yeshivah Gedolah Zal focused on the 100th anniversary of Ayin Bais, the series of Maamorim said by the Rebbe Rashab over the course of a few years, beginning in 1912-5672.
He shared some stories and instructions from the Rebbe which were given when Ayin Beis was published again in 5737.
An emotional point of the visit was when a local Lubavitch chossid came over to Rabbi Hecht and said that he deserves the credit for him being close to chassidus.
It was in 5736, shortly after Rabbi Hecht married his wife Tila, the Rebbe sent them on a special Shlichus to spend a few months with the Chabad community in Australia.
“You spoke to a group of teenagers at a Chabad camp organized by the Shluchim. I was one of them,” the person told Rabbi Hecht.
“At the time I was debating where to continue my studies – in a Litvish Yeshiva or at Chabad. I ended up going to the Litvish Yeshiva, by your speech to us remained in my mind and after a short while I indeed went to Chabad – and today I am a chossid.”
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This is really beautiful!
We never know who we touch and what the peula is. A similar message was given by theRebbe to then Bnei Akiva Shliach in the recent JEM – Living Torah.That is why it is necessary to leave a message w/ ppl when u talk to them or have mesiba even if its purely a social gathering. U never know when the hearer might recall it and it be a powerful msg to him/her.