The South African community held a grand Siyum Harambam celebration at the DP World Wanderers Stadium. The scaled-up event was in honor of the Hakhel year.
The South African community held a grand Siyum Harambam celebration at the DP World Wanderers Stadium. The scaled-up event was in honor of the Hakhel year.
Mandy Yachad, a former cricketer and hockey player for South Africa’s national teams, now turned observant Jew, headlined the event at the same stadium in which he once played.
Chief Rabbi of South Africa Warren Goldstein recited the Rebbe’s Kapital Tehillim 122, and businessmen Robbie Brozin and Simon Kuper addressed the crowd. The keynote address was delivered by Ukraine’s Rabbi Yechiel Shlomo Levitansky, director of Chabad of Sumy, Ukraine.
Rabbi Mordechai Rodal, the study of the new Rambam cycle flanked by a group of children who had recently taken part in the Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos.
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