Rabbi With ALS Gets 10,000 Birthday Presents From 15 Countries
The Mayanot Women's Learning program students were involved in a worldwide campaign to assist Rabbi with ALS celebrate his 46th birthday.
Written by: Menachem Posner VIA: Chabad.org/news
Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz has ALS and can no longer walk or talk, but that hasn’t stopped him from motivating 10,000 people in 15 countries to do extra mitzvahs this past week. In honor of the rabbi’s 46th birthday, a group of rabbinical students in Los Angeles, where the rabbi lives with his wife,Dina, and their seven children, decided that an appropriate gift would be 4,600 Jewish men putting on tefillin and sending him photos of their mitzvah. Using social media and an article posted on Chabad.org, the campaign went viral, and photos of tefillin-wearing men bearing #tefillinforyitzi placards began to pour in via text message and email. Almost 6,000 miles away in Israel, a group of young women studying at the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem expanded the campaign by taking to the streets…
Written by: Menachem Posner VIA: Chabad.org/news
Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz has ALS and can no longer walk or talk, but that hasn’t stopped him from motivating 10,000 people in 15 countries to do extra mitzvahs this past week. In honor of the rabbi’s 46th birthday, a group of rabbinical students in Los Angeles, where the rabbi lives with his wife,Dina, and their seven children, decided that an appropriate gift would be 4,600 Jewish men putting on tefillin and sending him photos of their mitzvah. Using social media and an article posted on Chabad.org, the campaign went viral, and photos of tefillin-wearing men bearing #tefillinforyitzi placards began to pour in via text message and email. Almost 6,000 miles away in Israel, a group of young women studying at the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem expanded the campaign by taking to the streets…
