Stropkover Rebbe Visits Melbourne Chabad Center
There was a buzz in the air at Chabad of Melbourne’s Central Business District this Tuesday: the Stropkover Rebbe would be addressing frum city professionals. Some eager attendees took off work or traveled from afar to be present.
Rabbi Dovid Leib Shmerling introduced the Stropkover Rebbe, noting the long-standing close ties between Stropkov and Lubavitch over the last century and that the present Stropkover Rebbe is a graduate of the Chabad Yeshivah of Lod.
The Stropkover Rebbe’s addressed a peculiarity in the Parsha. Rashi says that one should only rebuke immediately prior to his own death, but isn’t it sometimes a mitzvah to rebuke? The Stropkover Rebbe answered that yes, rebuke is sometimes a necessity, but ‘mochiach’ also means to prove. At the end of Moshe’s life, with the benefit of hindsight, Moshe could demonstrate that the path of Hashem and Torah are the right path and the good path. And Moshe’s words were not only addressed the generation of the Midbar. Rather, Moshe was speaking to ‘kol Yisroel,’ meaning all Jews of all generation, for a Tzadik’s voice is eternal.
The Stropkover Rebbe also passionately discussed how lucky we are to have such a close loving relationship with Hashem, to the extent that we address Hashem in the second person, “baruch ata'” rather than the reverential third person.
Commenting on the situation in Eretz Yisorel, the Stropkover Rebbe encouraged the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Mezuza campaign and commented that we write ‘Shin Daled Yud’ on the visible side of the Mezuza. This stands for both Shomer Dalsos Yisroel, which alludes to Hashem’s care for Bnei Yisroel, and Shomea Divrei Hashem, which alludes to Bnai Yisroel’s dedication to Hashem.
Fascinated by a long article on the Stropkov-Lubavitch connection, the Stropkover Rebbe prolonged his visit to read much of the article and refused to leave without a copy of the five pages.
The attendees left inspired and with thanks to director of Chabad of Melbourne-CBD Rabbi Chaim Herzog for arranging this special event.
Stropkov
Did the Stropkover Rebbe speak in english ? I dont think the crowd indestands Yiddish.
In Melbourne
Does any1 know y the Stropkover Rebbe is in Melbourne ?
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Fundraising obviously
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The question is y would lubavitch support & give $$$ 2 Stropkov ? If that is the case y is the Stropkover Rebbe in Melbourne ?
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There r other frum ppl besides Lubavitch in Melbourne. U have the Adas which is the Ungarish chassidim so yes they would give 2 Stropkov.
shlomo
The Stropkover Rebbe and his assistant were just mobbed by pro-palestinian youths at a shopping centre in a predominantly Jewish area in Perth Western Australia..
http://forward.com/articles/203502/rabbi-attacked-by-thugs-at-australia-mall/?