Video: Who Was Oholei Torah’s Greatest Supporter?

In honor of the upcoming Alumni Reunion, this Wednesday, 22 of Cheshvan, the Oholei Torah archive office is presenting this video for the very first time.

When Reb Michoel Teitelbaum, OBM, founded Oholei Torah, he quickly learned that he was in need of serious funding. When he spoke to the Rebbe about this, he never imagined such an answer.

This Wednesday evening, alumni from around the world will be gathering for a chassideshe farbrengen. It is a chance to sit with your fellow classmates, melamdim and mashpi’im, and reminisce of the old good “bochurshe yohren”.

Rabbi Mendel Duchman, of Los Angeles will be the MC, and Rabbi Yossel Baumgarten from South Africa will tell us his parents amazing story of true mesirus nefesh of being a talmid in very first years of the yeshiva. The Rebbe was personally involved in every step of the situation Reb Mendel and Nechama Baumgarten were involved in, and the miraculous way the story ended!

A tribute will be made to two outstanding talmidim, R’ Levi Deitsch, OBM, and R’ Mordechai Schapiro, OBM, from their classmates Rabbi Chaim Greisman from Stockholm, Sweden and Rabbi Meir Geisinsky from Cedarhurst, NY.

Rabbi Yosef Chaim HaKohen Rosenfeld, Executive Director, said this evening surely gives the Rebbe great nachas as talmidim from all the years, sit together, in achdus, surrounded with their teachers and hanholah, all their for the goal of simply re-living a few hours in the atmosphere of yeshiva, just like when they were bochurim.

The alumni reunion is open for all those who learned at any time in Oholei Torah. Whether you’re a Shliach, community member, or still a bochur, this is where you belong Wednesday night, together sitting with your classmates, back in Oholei Torah!

Rabbi Nosson Blumes, coordinator of the event, stresses the fact that it is open for all ages of alumni, including bochurim and current talmidim. “The reunion, being on the eve of the Kinnus Hashluchim, giving both a chance for the shluchim to attend, and also alumni living in Crown Heights to join in the excitement and energy that so evident during these days of the Kinnus”

No reservations are required, and there is no entrance fee. for more information email- rnblumes@oholeitorah.com or call 718-483-9000.