By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe‘s secretary, is spending the holiday of Pesach in the holy land of Israel this year.
His first call of duty was traveling to Jerusalem to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Rabbi Groner led the Chabad delegation in presenting Netanyahu with handmade Shmura Matzah based at the Matzah Bakery in the village of Kfar Chabad.
“You are doing a great and important job,” Netanyahu told the delegation with included Kiryat Gat Chief Rabbi Moshe Havlin and Chabad’s spokesman in Israel Rabbi Menachem Brod.
“May you be blessed for your activities in the hospitals and for new immigrants which are now connecting to the Jewish experience here in Israel,” he said.
Netanyahu added, “I thank you for taking care every year for our travelers around the world with the many and varied Seders.”
Chabad sent over 600 Yeshiva students to conduct public Seders in remote locations around the globe, many of them serving Israeli backpackers. This in in addition to the community Seders held by Chabad centers.
Rabbi Groner responded with a blessing for the Prime Minister and quoted the Rebbe’s words that Pesach turned the Jewish people into a free people, one that isn’t enslaved to any foreign power.
Rabbi Groner spent the Pesach itself in the southern city of Kiryat Gat with the family of his son, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Groner, Mashpia of the local Chabad Yeshiva.
Being a resident of the Diaspora, Rabbi Groner observed 2 days Pesach and held a Seder on Tuesday night as his Israeli grandchildren looked on and even photographed him celebrating.
You are not correct
That is of course following the Shita of AR
according to the “Velt” of course your take on that is clear and actual Halacha
We B”H are not from “der velt ”
Celebrate !
Students who are there on long term basis most rabanim passed one day. Temporary visitors do 2 days according to most. This doesn’t apply with Israelis in ny
Keeping two days has nothing to do with HisKashrus
I am amazed
Just open AR it could not be clearer
We really have to stop apologizing for being us
Of course there are other shittos but as has been said millions of times as we grew up. Yiu keep chelek Beis according to AR why be doubtful in O”Ch
Secondly tefilin are min haTorah and on Tuesday in EY even Rav Groner is mechuyav don’t need a Rabbi simply open S”A
Let us proudly declare VeHivdilonu min HaMisnagdim ve nossan lonu Toras HsChasidus.
THAT IS HISKASHRUS !!!!!
lol!!!
No you don’t take down Israeli flags
Dont u think that just maybe he has his personal psak according to his personal circumstances
Was the second day observed in Israel proper, or in Eilat?
Continued to keep two days YomTov there for many years & still may have that custom – as his way of being mekushar to the Rebbe in NY
There are many Chabad rabonim who hold that a visitor should keep 2 days in Israel. Rabbi Hendel a”h was one of them.
Not so clear. There are many Lubvavitcher Rabbanim who pasken to keep 2 days. Among them R’ zalmen shimon, and ybbccl”c Rabbi Landau
you can’t come to the PM office and start taking things down
Reb Zalmen Shimon told people that one should keep 2 days if they owned a house in America.
Alter Rebbe is clear
Im just wondering if maybe it would’ve been respectful to take down the Israeli flags for the picture with Rabbi Groner
Did he celebrate 2 days because as stated he was not a resident of Eretz Yisroel or rather because he was there alone?
I thought minhag Chabad is if you are in Israel for a chag you keep according to the Israeli way. Litvaks & Yeshivishim don’t hold by that. When we were in chutz for Pesach we kept 2 days each end. But I have to say, it so much easier and far more enjoyable to just make one seder! We weren’t oigeshmattehed by Day 2.