After months of intense program, bochurim of the Lubavitch yeshiva in Netanya were rewarded with a trip following the same route the Rebbe and Rebbetzin took 84 years ago: Paris – Vichy – Marseille – Nice – Portugal – New York.
By Anash.org reporter
After an extensive Mivtza Torah program, where bochurim of the Lubavitch yeshiva in Netanya devoted months of learning both in and out of seder, they have now been rewarded with a long-awaited prize: a journey tracing the relocation of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin from France to New York following the Nazi occupation. This is presumably the first time that Chassidim are following the same route the Rebbe and Rebbetzin took 84 years ago: Paris – Vichy – Marseille – Nice – Portugal – New York.
Following an extensive investigation by the Yeshiva administration led by the institution’s administrator, Netanya shliach Rabbi Menachem Volpo, along with Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Moshe Orenshtein, and Rabbi Aryeh Leib Cohen, they flew to Paris.
Upon their arrival, they were pleasantly surprised to be greeted by Rabbi Levi Azimov, the Rebbe’s shliach to France, who welcomed them and spoke movingly.
The bochurim’s journey following the relocation of the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin started in Paris itself; the places where the Rebbe and the Rebbetzin lived; the last apartment from which they left for the train that took them to Vichy; the apartment of Rebbetzin Chana where the Rebbe held farbrengens, including the first Yud Alef Nissan farbrengen; the two shuls where the Rebbe davened and taught Torah for 8 years; the café through which the Rebbe spread emuna; and many more.
Photographer Mendy Kotlyar is accompanying this special journey and he presents a detailed photo gallery.
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