When the Rebbe called for the establishment of the Reshet school network in Eretz Yisroel, Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Zilberstrom dropped a respected profession and comfortable income and, together with several other chassidim, opened dozens of schools across the country — finding teachers, organizing training days and seminars, and building communities around those schools that rescued tens of thousands of Jewish children from spiritual destruction.

Beyond the standard school day, they constantly sought new ways to reach boys who had fallen through the cracks. He relates:

One year, we opened a special Shabbos program in the city of Ganim, after it became known that boys were spending Shabbos at venues involving chilul Shabbos. To draw them in, we incorporated ping pong and other games into the program.

When we reported this to the Rebbe, the response soon arrived in his holy handwriting: “Ping pong on Shabbos Kodesh – it is self-understood that this has no place whatsoever.”

(Letter from 11 Nissan, 5720)