Chabad on Toronto’s Bayview Breaks Ground

With temperatures soaring, more than 150 people came out April 17 to break ground and lay the cornerstone for Chabad’s $9.5-million Bayview Centre for Jewish Life in Toronto.

“Today is the beginning of something amazing,” Rabbi Levi Gansburg, spiritual leader of Toronto’s Chabad on Bayview, told the crowd.

“Historically, in Jewish tradition, the ritual has been called hanachat even hapinah, which means laying of the cornerstone… Although the ceremonial groundbreaking is a western-world institution, the laying of the cornerstone dates back to the times of the Temple and prior to that as well. Today is another link carrying forward the unbreakable chain of our ancestors’ traditions in the 21st century.

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