Brothers Rabbi Chuni Vogel and Rabbi Nechemiah Vogel visited the Mayanot Yeshiva in Jerusalem for more than one reason.
The Delaware
Jewish community might not be the largest or as well known as communities like
New York or Los Angeles, but relative to their size the community is having a
great international impact.
Under the
direction or Rabbi Chuni Vogel, Director of Chabad of Delaware, the
community has been bolstered greatly, and the Mayanot Institute of Jewish
Studies, in Jerusalem, is experiencing the positives effects of all the
students that have come through from Delaware.
Current
students, Zach Horowitz and Isaiah Coplon of Wilmington Delaware,
are just two examples of inspired individuals, who are excited for the upcoming
year.
“After only
a week, my experience at Mayanot has been very eye opening; it is a fantastic
feeling to be in a place where I can learn, grow, and experience authentic Judaism
in an environment surrounded by passionate, G-d loving people. There is no
doubt that this year will continue to be one of immense positivity and growth
for me, and I’m so looking forward to the many more experiences to come,” says
Horowitz, CTeen champion of 2016.
(Horowitz and Coplon)
Starting the
new semester off right, Rabbi Chuni Vogel, and his brother Rabbi Nechemiah Vogel
of Chabad of Rochester, came to visit the students, in Jerusalem. They lead a
fabrengen and discussed what the students’ goals were for their upcoming year
of growth. The students were grateful for the visit, the ability to fabreng with
their shliach, and for being welcomed to Mayanot in a supremely unique way.
Rabbi Chuni
Vogel related, “The time in my youth that I spent in Yeshiva has been the
source and foundation of all the good in my life and that of my family.
Visiting Mayanot and seeing how the individuals from our community are now
having that same life altering experience, brings me inner joy that can't be
adequately put into words.”
“It is a wonderful
opportunity for new students to be greeted, at the beginning of the new
academic year, by the shluchim that helped inspire them to come. For these individuals,
the learning experience can be even more transformative”, said Rabbi Kasriel
Shemtov, Executive Director of Mayanot.
Motti and Rachel
Flekshtein also grew up in the Chabad of Delaware community and came to
learn at Mayanot in 2005. Today they themselves are shluchim in Delaware. The
Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies is proud to partner with Chabad of Delaware
to inspire our youth and help create Jewish leaders like Rabbi Motti and Rachel
Flekshtein, who are impacting hundreds of Jewish teens in their home community.
