This video was shown at the gala banquet of the International Kinus Hashluchos in New York (5780 / 2020).
VIDEO: Rivkin Media
The Backpacker Who Forgot Yom Kippur
Watch: Shlucha Shachar Banin walked into Chabad of Venice in Italy one Yom Kippur and was shocked to find an Israeli backpacker using the computer as if it wasn't the holiest Jewish day of the year. What she said led to a life-changing transformation. Video
Watch: Shlucha Shachar Banin walked into Chabad of Venice in Italy one Yom Kippur and was shocked to find an Israeli backpacker using the computer as if it wasn't the holiest Jewish day of the year. What she said led to a life-changing transformation. Video
Such a heart-warming story!!
Shochar and Rami are amazing! Huge fans
You are amazing!!!
That is an incredible talent to be able to act on your feet so fast like that!
Wow is all I can say! I definitely look up to you!
– A 14 year old girl
A couple of summers ago I was all of 16 years old traveling Italy, when I got to venice, a nice bochur asked me if I would like to put on the tefillin, I don’t think I did, but when I met rabbi banin, he looked at me as if I was one of the buchrim on shluchos! Giving me a place to sleep food to eat, making me feel like a belonged somewhere, not focusing on the external, but rather that we are really all the same, it was there in venice where I decided to go to yeshiva… Read more »
Wonderful story very moving.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful and inspiring story filmed in such a professional way.
Shachar and Rami are special shluchim that give their heart and soul to the million tourists they have over every year.