Interesting Story of a meeting of worlds


I am not very clued up about the inter relationships and inner workings of the various Orthodox communities in Israel, but I found this story quite interesting .


The Chabad House of Ramat Eliyahu of Rishon Letziyon, directed by Rabbi Chanan Kochanovsky, hosted the Rebbe of Toldos Aharon who addressed the crowd at the Chabad shul on Friday night. The guest, escorted by a minyan of Chassidim encouraged the crowd to do proper Teshuva in the month of Elul. The Rebbe told Rabbi Kochanovsky that he had the merited an encounter with the Rebbe and was amazed at the scope of Chabad activities around the globe.


Source (http://www.col.org.il/homepage.rtx) for English, http://www.col.org.il/show_news.rtx?artID=31652 for Hebrew.

This story is interesting to me for a couple of reasons 1) that the Toldas Aaron Rebbe (leader of a very conservative insular Chassidic group) would go to a Chabad house and address the crowd (were their non observant jews or women there???) 2) that he publicly expressed his appreciation for meeting the Rebbe 3) That he was impressed with Chabad activities around the world obviously in their reference to their outreach activities.

Maybe I am out of the loop on this one, but isn’t this a pretty radical occurrence? Either way, I find this news quite uplifting and glad to see that such diverse groups can get along with a sense of mutual respect and dignity. Yasher koach

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *