MONTREAL, Canada — Some would call the way 10 Jewish men and women in Montreal push off their work days in order to learn a Jewish text for 45 minutes downright stubborn. But while these professionals admit that they're nothing if not persistent, they contend that their daily study of the Tanya, the bedrock text of Chabad Chasidic thought, is a necessity in a harried world.
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MONTREAL, Canada — Some would call the way 10 Jewish men and women in Montreal push off their work days in order to learn a Jewish text for 45 minutes downright stubborn. But while these professionals admit that they’re nothing if not persistent, they contend that their daily study of the Tanya, the bedrock text of Chabad Chasidic thought, is a necessity in a harried world.
They’ve been going at it for a full year. Day in day out. Yom Kippur and Labor Day alike.
“If you think about it, in a normal world it would be hard to get 10 people to do the same thing every day, the whole year, not to mention studying something as heavy as the Tanya,” says David Medina, a young resident of Montreal’s old city.
Medina, an executive of a family-owned firm that inspects industrial food manufacturers, begins his day promptly at 4:45 a.m. with a morning jog before driving to Chabad Queen Mary, the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue where he learns Tanya after the morning prayer service.
He sounds pretty mystified when talking about the 45-minute lesson led by Rabbi Ronnie Fine, the Chabad House’s co-director. The daily exploration frequently deviates from the original text and morphs into a full-headed discussion about Jewish beliefs and practices.
Nemo
Mendel!!
ephraim
i love the fines.
they rock the shtub
virginia
mendel gr8 job