The Man Who Could Have Been a Gaon and Became a Chassidic Doctor

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Dr. Seligson receiving a piece of ‘Lekach’ from the Rebbe

Dr. Avrohom Aba Seligson, the Rebbe’s doctor, a’h, whose yortseit falls on the 25th of Shvat, was born in Krakow in 5667, to his father, Rabbi Michoel Aharon, a descendant of the Alter Rebbe, who had the merit to host the Rebbe Rayatz in his home just about the time, Reb Avrohom Aba was born. A few years later he opened a Chassidus class in his house at the expressed wish of the Rebbe Rayatz, and being that there were no Chabadniks in the area, the attendees were Gerer and Belzer Chassidim, who arrived to study ‘Torah Or’ and ‘Likutei Torah’.

Reb Avrohom Aba studied medicine in Vilna and completed his studies successfully to a degree that he was considered an expert doctor prior to World War 2 and he had the merit of having Yechidus with the Rebbe Rayatz in 5696.

During the war he resided in Shanghai, China together with the Tmimim who fled there from the battlefront. With great dedication, he saved many Jews from diseases. After the war, when he received a doctor’s certificate in the U.S. he notified the Rebbe Rayatz about this and the Rebbe, in turn, sent him a letter of blessings in his profession.

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The New York Times

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The Jewish Kids Radio Show which runs every Motzoai Shabbos and is listened to by many kids across the Brooklyn has just been made available world wide via the internet!

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Man Kills 2 Neighbors Over Noise

NY Post

February 24, 2006 — A Brooklyn man, enraged by loud noise coming from an upstairs apartment, stabbed two men to death last night after pistol-whipping them, police sources said.

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Chabad myths

by: Rabbi Jeremy Rosen – somethingjewish.co.uk

The Lubavitcher (Chabad) Rebbe was undeniably a great man. Many of his followers have done outstanding work around the globe. But sadly as with every large organisation they have their crooks, their swindlers and their charlatans.

Amongst their failings is an exaggerated tendency to maximise miracles the Rebbe performed (while ignoring his limitations) and inventing myths.

For many years there has been a story circulating that my father who died in March 1962 was promised he would be cured by the Rebbe provided he did not tell anyone, but he did and that’s why he died. These stories caused my late mother a great deal of distress. Her very different record of the events was actually published in a Lubavitch book called ‘Challenge: An Encounter with Lubavitch Chabad’ and at one stage she even toyed with legal action.

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The expected release date is February 27th and will be available at major Judica stores.

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