Our Heroes: Reb Michoel Dworkin

by Rabbi Michoel Seligson

Left: Reb Michoel Dworkin. Right: town of Lubavitch in early 1900s.

Reb Michoel Dworkin was born shortly before the Tzemach Tzedek’s passing in 1866, in a small town in white Russia * Originally followers of the Mahari”l of Kopust and his son, the Dworkin family returned to Lubavitch and became followers of the Rebbe Rashab in 1900 * Reb Michoel was a successful businessman before the advent of communism, and was a ‘Ben Bayis’ of the Rebbe Rashab and the Previous Rebbe * He passed away on Erev Shavuos, 1949 in New York.

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