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13,000
Brissin In 59 Places Around The World
On
Yud Shvat, shluchim, rabbanim, and public figures headed
by the Rachmastrivka Rebbe convened at the annual gathering of Bris
Yosef Yitzchok. The 150 workers and volunteers noted that 13,000 brissin
had been made in 59 locations around the world. They have gone to
the most distant places, such as the autonomous region set aside by
Stalin for the Jews in Yeruburizan.
The
program began with Rabbi Toledano describing his work in prisons. Recent
immigrants from Russia thanked him for helping them find their way from
prison to the bris of Avrohom Avinu.
Some
of the Bris Yosef Yitzchok workers landed in Eretz Yisroel
a few hours before this event. They had amazing tales to relate of their
adventures around the world.
Rabbi
Yaron Amit, the man behind all this amazing work, summed up the
accomplishments of the organization named for the Rebbe Rayatz. An album
illustrating the work of Bris Yosef Yitzchok has been produced. “Bris
Yosef Yitzchok has never turned down a request to do a bris anywhere
in the world,” he proudly stated. They broke a record that week by
circumcising an eighty-year-old man.
Rabbi
Amit mentioned R’ Avrohom Genin, a’h, a man of such mesirus
nefesh that the Rebbe described him as Avrohom Avinu. R’ Genin
used to attend these annual gatherings and tell stories about brissin
in Moscow. He used to arrange brissin for Jews under any and all
circumstances behind the Iron Curtain.
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