Yerushalayim Chief Rabbi’s First Stop in New York

When Harav Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, was invited to attend an event in New York, he told the organizers that he has one place that must be the first stop on his itinerary.

By Anash.org reporter

When Harav Shlomo Amar, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, was invited to attend an event in New York, he told the organizers that he has one place that must be the first stop on his itinerary. That place was the Rebbe’s Ohel.

Rabbi Amar, who served as the Rishon Letzion – Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel from 2003 to 2013, has a close connection to Chabad and the Rebbe every since his youth in Casablanca, Morocco, when he learned under the Rebbe’s Shluchim.

Currently serving as the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Yerushalayim, Rabbi Amar traveled to New York to attend an event organized by the Semichas Chaver program, celebrating the thousands who learn Halacha on a weekly basis as part of the program.

When he was invited by Rabbi Goldvicht of Semichas Chaver, Rabbi Amar told him that his first stop in New York needs to be the Rebbe’s Ohel. And indeed, on Motzei Shabbos Rabbi Amar arrived to daven at the Ohel together with a small entourage.