Rabbi Israel Salanter's grave in Russia (Photo: Denis Pavlov)
As every year, this year too, an aliyah was held for the memory of the founder of the Mosar movement, Rabbi Israel Selanter, located in the ancient Beit Chaim in the center of the city of Kaliningrad-Königsberg, a Russian enclave in Europe, between Lithuania and Poland on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
The Jews of the city came to say a prayer in honor of the tzaddik and to light a candle in honor of his soul, and were moved to see the new tent, the construction of which was completed in preparation for the 140th Hilula that took place on Thursday the 25th of Shvet last week. This, and the place is properly guarded and respected.
Rabbi Israel Salanter's grave in Russia (Photo: Denis Pavlov)
Rabbi Israel Salanter's grave in Russia (Photo: Denis Pavlov)
The prayer was led by the Chabad emissary in the city, Rabbi Avraham Baruch Deitsch, and continued with a meal and a meeting held in the Great Synagogue in the center of the city, where an overview of the new developments in the Jewish community was presented, first of all practical progress in the construction of the purification mikva, which is being built with a large investment and under the supervision of the Chief Rabbinate for Russia, led by the Chief Rabbi of Russia the genius Rabbi Berel Lazar, who visited the place and personally followed the construction and the special decorations of the mikvah, which will be the first in the city and the entire district in about a hundred years. With
great excitement all the members of the community and the Jews of the city received the news of the opening of a new Jewish kindergarten, called 'Mendkids', for children The city's Jews, who for the first time will have the privilege of studying in a Hasidic Jewish framework full of the spirit of Israel Saba.
At the establishment of the mezuzos for the new institution, the emissary Rabbi Deutsch honored the city's rabbi Rabbi David Schwedik and head of the community Eliezer Yeremiahu Flitman, and together with the participants in the opening, including friends and supporters, took part in a comprehensive tour of the new educational institution, and the rabbinic emissary Chaya Moshka Deitch introduced the staff and the contents of the new garden to The purity of the Holy.
David Berger, in collaboration with Shuba Israel
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