Since their arrival in Gomel just before Rosh Hashanah, Rabbi Menachem Mendel and Rochel Kot have launched programs and events for community members of all ages.
New Emissaries to Historic Chassidic Town of Gomel, Belarus, Find Jews Ready to Dance
Among most Chassidic groups, including Chabad-Lubavitch, the joyous dancing with the Torah known as hakafot takes place on Shemini Atzeret as well as Simchat Torah. But this was not the practice at the synagogue in Gomel, Belarus, where Kot and his wife, Rochel, had arrived as Chabad emissaries only weeks earlier.
