PORTLAND, ME — During a historic and uplifting ceremony, the great-grandchildren of Hasidic rabbis were wed Monday night in Portland.
It was believed to be the first Hasidic wedding held in Maine in several decades.
Hasidic Rabbis’ Descendants Wed in Portland
PORTLAND, ME — During a historic and uplifting ceremony, the great-grandchildren of Hasidic rabbis were wed Monday night in Portland.
It was believed to be the first Hasidic wedding held in Maine in several decades.
Chaya Mushka Wilansky, who was born and raised in Portland, married Yossi Freedman of Cleveland at Verrillo’s Banquet Center.
“It will keep the tradition going,” explained the bride’s father, Rabbi Moshe Wilansky. The bride’s mother is Chana Wilansky.
The public was invited to the ceremony, which attracted guests from all over the world. Wilansky said it took three months to plan the wedding.
Music was provided by the Choni Milecki Orchestra, which was flown in from Brooklyn, N.Y.
The bride and groom exchanged their vows beneath a chupa – a marriage canopy. The groom’s great-grandfather, 90-year-old Rabbi Zalman Kazen, officiated at the ceremony.
He was assisted by the groom’s uncle, Rabbi Moshe J. Kotlarsky, director of the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary network. Chabad-Lubavitch is the largest Hasidic Jewish movement in the world.
Wilansky said his son-in-law plans to be an emissary at one of 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch centers worldwide.
relitive who didn-t make it
r u gona have any pics to add to ur simcha gallery from the wedding
ur cuz
was awsome wedding
were on way back now
the wilanskys the “main” shluchim of america did it again.
there hospitality this morning was great making sure everyone ate and took food to go.
looking fwd to ur next simcha
anonymous
the “great grandchildren of hasidic rabbis?”
how about “hasidic couple gets married in maine!”
it’a not just the alter bubbies and zeidies who are “hasidic.”
naftali brook
gosh why don’t u see past it and look who wrote the story…
a uneducated writer in maine.
it was a big kiddush hashem. and its the first frum hasidic wedding maine had.
yeh stay anonimous and siyug lichachna shtika
huh
yo dude. they are great grandchildren of hasidic rabbis. what’s ur point
chosid
Lubavitch is most definitely not the largest “Hasidic Jewish group in the world.” Maybe #2. Satmar beats us by a lot on a purely numbers basis.
To Chosid
As opposed to a pure letter basis…
Tilly Willy
I was there and it was the biggest kiddush hashem ever,There were about 200 Lubavitcher guests from around the world, and about 200 people from the community. It was as leibetick as a crown heights wedding you couldn’t believe that you were in Portland Maine.The community people were just amazed as can be. Keep going!!!!!!If you make a wedding in crown heights you make a couple of phone calls and pay the bills and youre done, over here they went back and forth countless amount of times to bring in enough food and then kasher all the keilem for the wedding and the kitchen in the hotel together with numerous other things, for only one reason to take care of another yid, Much hatzlacha.
cuzin of the kalah from c.h.
I WAS THERE!!!!! YA!!!!! (i just want them to post a picture of me) WONDERFUL WEDDING!!!!
Anonymous
Yossi’s from Bahia Blanca, Argentina, NOT Cleveland.
argentina
i dont get there point of not mentioning the chosons father being the shaliach in bahia blanca that being said i wish all the best to yossi and his kallah if someone wants a true example of a shliachs child grown up far from home that is yossi