A delegation of Lubavitch rabbonim, roshei yeshiva, and shluchim from Chicago met with Rav Shaul Alter, Gerrer Rosh Yeshiva and leader of the Pnei Menachem community, who is currently visiting the city.
By Anash.org reporter
A delegation of Lubavitch rabbonim, roshei yeshiva, and shluchim from Chicago met with Rav Shaul Alter, Gerrer Rosh Yeshiva and leader of the Pnei Menachem community, who is currently visiting the city.
The group of Lubavitcher rabbonim was invited by R’ Yitzchok Shkop, a Chicago philanthropist, who introduced Rabbi Boruch Hertz, rov of Anash in Chicago, Rabbi Moshe Binyomin Pearlstien, dean of the Mesivta, Rabbi Eli Nosson Silberberg, Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Yitzchok Wolf, dean of the Cheder, and Rabbi Meir Shimon Moscowitz, head of Chabad activities in Illinois.
R’ Shaul Alter praised the work of the shuchim and quoted the Zohar that to be mekarev a Yid is greater than publishing works of Torah.
The delegation spoke about the Frierdiker Rebbe’s visits to Chicago and the influence it had on the city, including the impact on young Efraim Moscowitz whose descendants went on to change the city. Rabbi Wolf shared that the Frierdiker Rebbe said before he left that Chicago would be a chassidishe city. “If so,” the Rosh Yeshiva said, “it is certainly happening!”
The delegation presented the Rosh Yeshiva with several seforim: Bikur Chicago, the Frierdiker Rebbe’s sichos during his second visit to Chicago in 5702, Reshimas Hamenorah, a complex treatise from the Rebbe on the kindling of the menorah in the Beis Hamikdash, and Kavod Chachomim, a collection of Chidushei Torah by Chicago Rabbonim in honor of the Rebbe.
The Rosh Yeshiva shared how he knew Rabbi Hertz’s grandfather, R’ Gedalya Hertz, a chossid of the Frierdiker Rebbe who was the longtime Rosh Yeshiva in the Gerrer Yeshiva in Tel Aviv. He also had high esteem for Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Hertz, Rosh Yeshiva of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in London, who “has gantz Shas on his lips!”
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Seems that unknowingly they gave him a Sefer that has a family connection to him.
Reshimas Hamenorah was composed in response to questions from Reb Shneior Zalman Shmotkin from Varsha. Reb Shaul’s Shver was his great nephew (his sister Chiena’s grandson).
There is a published letter the Pnei Menachem wrote to the Rebbe when he made Reb Shaul’s Shidduch. In this letter he is very proud of the family connection his Mechutan has to חשובי זקני חסידי חב”ד