Photo Gallery: Yud Tes Kislev All Around the World

Pictures of Yud Tes Kislev farbrengens from Pittsburgh, Baltimore, New York, Montreal and… the Amazon Rain Forest!

Yeshiva Boys School of Pittsburgh

The program was inspiring and thoroughly enjoyable, with speakers Rabbi Rosenfeld, Rabbi Rosenblum, Rabbi Friedman and Rabbi Hoen.

Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore

Yeshivas Lubavitch of Baltimore held a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen for the Mishmor Learning program. Mendy Cheruff, one of the shluchim at Yeshiva, farbrenged with the young bochrim, along with Yanky Abrams, Levi Plotkin, Mendel Krinsky and other Bochrim. The boys immensely enjoyed the inspiring words, refreshments, prizes and raffles.

Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens, NY

Rabbi Yisroel Friedman, Rosh Yeshiva of Oholei Torah in Crown Heights, farbrenged at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Cambria Heights, Queens, New York.

Central Lubavitch Shul in Montreal

Manaus, Amazon Rain Forest, Brazil

For the first time ever, the Jewish local community in the Amazon Rain Forest celebrated Yud Tes Kislev with a farbrengan and live music. They were taught four niggunim that were played by a violinist from the Manaus Orchestra.

The farbrengan began with the Shliach to the Amazon, Rabbi Arieh Raichman retelling the story of the capturing and imprisonment of the Alter Rebbe. He told how the Alter Rebbe did not wish to break the laws of nature, but rather work with nature, whether it was the miracle of how the Alter Rebbe, when traveling to the prison, asked the head soldier to stop as Shabbos was approaching, the soldier refused and the axle broke off. Once it was repaired – the horses died. Seeing that the situation was because of the Alter Rebbe’s desire not to travel, the leader then asked the Alter Rebbe for permission to travel to the nearest city. The Alter Rebbe also refused, but acquiesced to allow them to move the carriage off the road. A similar situation occurred while traveling on the boat on the way to being interrogated. And similarly, with regards to the top of the snuff box which the Alter Rebbe used as a mirror. The Alter Rebbe did not intend on breaking the laws of nature, but rather worked with nature.

The people in the farbrengan were inspired to realize that acting Jewish is not something abnormal that breaks the laws of nature and that is only to be accomplished in Israel or in large cities where there is an abundance of kosher food and restaurants, an abundance of synagogues and schools, or an abundance of Jewish people. A person can act Jewish even in the Amazon where the Jewish community is less than a thousand, where there is no Jewish day school (yet), and where the nearest large Jewish community is a 3 hour flight away (in Panama).

The auspicious evening continued with the community seeing a Living Torah video where the Rebbe speaks about the importance of being an active Jew in all aspects of one’s life. For many it was the first time ever seeing the Rebbe speak. The community members were so inspired from the farbrengan that they decided to take on several different hachlatos.