Shliach Rabbi Meir Stambler from Dnipro, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine, made a special visit to the Ohel of the Alter Rebbe’s father, Reb Boruch, in Vinogradov, in Western Ukraine.
Shliach Rabbi Meir Stambler from Dnipro, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Ukraine, made a special visit to the traditionally held Ohel of the Alter Rebbe’s father, Reb Boruch, in Vinogradov, in Western Ukraine.
The family journeyed through Western Ukraine on their way to the Chabad Jewish refugee camp on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary, where many families of shluchim and Anash from Ukraine have been staying in recent months.
Rabbi Stambler, who needed a minyan as a chiyuv for his mother, stopped over in the town of Khust, once a bustling Jewish center. Khust is very close to Vinogradov, where R’ Boruch, the father of the Alter Rebbe, is buried.
With the assistance of community leader Volodymyr Katz, Jews from Khust and Vinogradov gathered at the town’s magnificent shul for Mincha-Maariv. Afterward, Rabbi Stambler and Mr. Katz discussed steps to develop the community. The area has been serviced by shliach to the Carpathian region, Rabbi Mendel Wilhelm.
The shul in Khust, built in 1828, is one of the few functioning shuls in Ukraine and the only one in the Carpathian region that has preserved its original interior and wall paintings despite the trials of time, the Holocaust, and communism.
After davening, Rabbi Stambler and his family visited the Jewish cemetery in Vinogradov, where R’ Baruch, the Alter Rebbe’s father, is buried.
Curious as to why the name says ben Avraham.
I believe it’s because of the time he passed away nobody knew what his father‘s name was.
As you see from the tombstone, his full name was Yisroel Boruch. Something not commonly known. (various historians have discussed whether this is Indeed, his burial place.)
It is.
His name was Yisroel Boruch. However he stopped using his second name once he became a talmid of the Baal Tov, in order to respect his Rebbe.