By COLlive reporter
Photos by Dovi Straiton
Each Friday afternoon, students of the Rabbinical College of Australia (YG-Melbourne) and Mesivtah take part in Mivtzoim, visiting workplaces, shopping centres and offices to share a word of Torah, and to encourage their fellow Jews to fulfil an extra Mitzvah.
Some students also visit patients in area hospitals and homes, offering a word of encouragement and sympathy in their time of distress.
On Sunday, 3 Av – 22 July, over 50 people regularly visited on Mivtzoim gathered to thank their Friday volunteers. The warm atmosphere was palpable in the hall as everyone began arriving and sharing their welcomes.
The evening began with Tehillim led by Mesivtah Student Yossi Gopin. Yeshivah Gedolah student Avi Bart shared some personal Mivtzoim experiences, and he spoke about the Rebbe’s legendary Ahavas Yisroel (love for every Jew) which is the source of inspiration for each and every Mivtzoyim volunteer.
Stan Gordon spoke of his warm connection with Chabad, which was initiated by Rabbi Masinter in South Africa, and which progressively strengthened after his move to Melbourne. Stan shared some personal stories with the Rebbe, his increasing adherence to Torah and Mitzvos, and a vote of thanks to all the boys who visited him each Friday over the years.
After an intermission and supper, Rabbi Yaakov Glasman captivated the audience with words of inspiration, as he shared the special impact the Yeshivah Gedolah students have on the members of his congregation each time they make the six-hour round-trip trek each Yom Tov Tahalucha.
Mivtzoim coordinators Shmuel Lipskier and Mendel Polter presented each volunteer with a certificate and special leather Tefillin Bag as a token of appreciation.
Chabad-Youth director Rabbi Moshe Kahn movingly encouraged each and every person in the crowd to enhance their Mitzvah observance, and to further devote themselves to at least one of the Ten Mivtzoyim.
The evening concluded with a special video presentation produced by Berel Groner and Menachem Wolf, and desserts. A special souvenir journal was distributed, which included greetings from Rabbi Chaim Tzvi Groner and Rabbi Binyomin Cohen.
Special thanks to Rabbi Moshe Kahn and all the Yeshivah Gedolah and Yeshivah College Shluchim for organizing the event, to Benny Goldman for catering, and to Zalman Ajzenszmidt and Sholom Loebenstein for coordinating various aspects of the event.
go effy block!!!!! u rockkkK!!!!! :))))))))))
ariii!!!!! looking good!
keep it up shmulie lip
I spy Yossi Gutnick from Sydney
we are very proud of you!
love your family
i spi mendy begun !!!!
the best Y.G. shliach
you do a amazing job with our class
good job yossi krinsky!!!!!!!!!
g in the house baby
Best of luck from your cousins in the USA – Kan Tziva Hashem
Well done Zalmy. Your selfless work makes us all very proud of you. You should go higher & higher.
Masinter is a legend . How many people he ha s positively affected he even got the wolf of wall street to put on tefilin
thanks mendy.
i love you too.
jeddy
Chaim Rosenthal it’s good to see you!
hi sholom best uncle in the world!!
i miss you soo much!!
from chaya
Yeshiva LA misses you!!
WE LOVE YOU LOWIE
(just like everyone else in the world)
hey lowie! looking awesome
(wow ur beard got SO big, its crazy)
GO LOWIE!
YOU ARE THE BEST!!!!!
U THA MAN! LOVE YOU!!!
We love you lowe
Xoxo jeddi
tzali
tzali
tzali
tzali
tzali
Gooooooo Sholom Loebenstein!!!!
You are the best, your always helping out chabad!!!!
You’ll make such a fine shliach one day!
you look awsome!
wow amazing!!!
youre huge fan club in TORONTO!!!
rock & rol!!!!
on your weekly vissits, you always are ready to listen to me, to help me woth my problems, overcome my depression, you’re the only pewrosn i feel comefortable crying to.
thank you so much.
Keep up the good work! Your cousins in Brazil
Tzalli Reicher:)
Philly loves you!
hi mendy lieberman
from yossi
sick tie!
The Rebbe is so proud of you!
The best bochur I know!!
Sholom Loebenstein you truly are the greatest!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for coming to visit me in my office every week, i always look forward to Fridays knowing you’ll be coming around, Thank you!
U R AWESOME WE MISS U
“The iconic Shliach!” Always with a smile, never resting. We love you.
Looking good! Nice tie.
The one whose idea this was ,who worked non-stop to make it a success,and whose dedication to mivtzoim is an inspiration to all –
GO FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH !!!
Moshie kahan is so devoted and is works tirelessly for the community of melbourne, go moshe and hatzlacha in everything you do.
you are awesoome!
Lipsker would make it to the mic!!!
He just has that YEKA power!!