"We've been in Israel since Tuesday, and we really love it here. It's awesome, and it's surreal that everything is Jewish." On Friday, December 11, Dmitri Salita, the famous light-welterweight boxer from the United States and his wife Alona were at KKL-JNF's Aminadav Forest near Jerusalem, where they had come to plant trees in honor of their visit. They were greeted by KKL-JNF's Avinoam Binder, former chief KKL-JNF USA emissary, who surprised them when he explained that most of Israel's trees were planted by KKL-JNF, since the land had been stripped of almost all its natural forests.
Dmitri and Alona were accompanied by Dmitri's Chabad rabbi, Rabbi Zalman Lieberov, who said that as Dmitri's rabbi, he never went with him to his fights: "But when I heard that he was going to plant a tree in Israel, I said that this was an opportunity I wouldn't miss!"
Read more: http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447427403&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The same Rabbi who accompanied Dmitri Salita is now in need of our prayers.
A horrific car crash has left a 10-year-old Flatbush boy R"L dead, a newly married woman R"L dead, and the boy's father, a Chabad shaliach in Flatbush, fighting for his life.
Read more: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/44422/TRAGEDY+STRIKES+LUBAVITCH+COMMUNITY:+Adult+&+Child+R
Please say Tehillim l'zchus Shneur Zalman ben Dabrosho
(שניאור זלמן בן דברושא).
Below is a story about the Rabbi (unless it is someone with the same name) that was written in 2003.
Zalman Lieberov spent four hours one afternoon talking to an 80 year-old Jew who vividly remembers his hometown cheder, where he was schooled as a young child before the war.
But that was a long time ago, Shmuel Haiperman explained, and he has long since shed the Judaism of his childhood. He’s too far removed from traditional Judaism, now. It’s too late.
“No Jew is ever too far,” Zalman told him.
“And it’s never too late.”
So for the first time in his life, with Zalman’s help and some cajoling, the elderly man wrapped the leather straps of the tefillin around his arm, exactly as his grandfather did. Then he closed his eyes and said the Shema.
Between Zalman and Leizer Twerski, Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students on a five-week stint in Romania, these leather straps have been bound around the arms of hundreds of Jews. It’s a mitzvah, explain the rabbis who don tefillin daily, that connects the Jewish soul to G-d. “We want every Jew to have the spiritual benefit of that mitzvah at least once in a lifetime,” says Zalman.
http://lubavitch.com/news/article/2014792/And-Bind-Them-For-A-Sign-Upon-Your-Hand.html
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