The Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Miami Beach, Fla., received a routine call in the days before Purim in 1993. An elderly man phoned that he couldn't go to synagogue to hear the reading of the Scroll of Esther (megillah) and requested someone to come to his residence to read the scroll for him.
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The Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Miami Beach, Fla., received a routine call in the days before Purim in 1993. An elderly man phoned that he couldn’t go to synagogue to hear the reading of the Scroll of Esther (megillah) and requested someone to come to his residence to read the scroll for him.
Chaim Schapiro, a student at the school, was sent.
“I remember it vividly,” says Schapiro, “it was a condominium on Collins Avenue and 23rd Street, right past the Avis car rental office.”
Following his instructions, Schapiro looked for one David Bezborodko, an elderly wheelchair-bound man with a flowing white beard. Schapiro dutifully read the megillah, and as he was getting ready to leave, Bezborodko asked the student if was a Chabad-Lubavitch chasid.
Thinking nothing of the question, Schapiro nodded in affirmation. The elderly man relayed that he knew the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, from his time in France.
