Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kaplan, third from left, pioneered the revival of Jewish life in Safed, Israel. He is shown here at age 20, when he was sent by the Rebbe to lead a group of rabbinical students who helped establish the first yeshivah in Australia.
The Rabbi Who Pioneered the Jewish Revival of Safed
In Chabad circles, there are no small assignments for the movement’s emissaries, sent near and far to bolster and spread Judaism, often in isolated outposts. But there are some who take on missions of heroic proportion, such as one assigned a young Crown Heights couple in the summer of 1973.
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