Kabbalas Panim For Guest Rabbanim

Based on the Rebbe’s directive to the members of the beis din of Crown Heights, there was a kabbalas panim gathering on Motzaei Shavuos for the rabbinic guests who had come to 770 for Yom Tov. This year, in honor of the mara d’asra Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Kalman Marlow, the gathering took place in his home.

Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Garelik chaired the gathering, and began with a Dvar Malchus from a letter the Rebbe wrote to Rabbi Shneur Zalman Garelik, a’h, the former rav of Kfar Chabad, in which the Rebbe writes of the significance of the role of mara d’asra.

Mara d’asra and member of the beis din Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba spoke about timely matters and adjured those in attendance of the necessity to speak to their congregations about the importance of tefilla b’tzibur.

Rabbi Shneur Zalman Gurary of the ziknei rabbanei Chabad and member of the hanhala of Agudas Chassidei Chabad spoke of the necessity of achdus among rabbanei Anash, and about appointing new rabbanim and educating a young generation of rabbanim.

Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, rav of Kfar Chabad and member of the beis din rabbanei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel, spoke about the importance of chinuch for boys and girls, which must be especially emphasized nowadays. Rabbi Ben-Tzion Lipsker, rav of Arad and member of the beis din rabbanei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel, and Rabbi Yochonon Gurary, rav of Cholon and member of the beis din rabbanei Chabad in Eretz Yisroel, further developed this theme. They said that with the development of technology and videos and Internet, care must be taken to use these things properly and to keep them away from our young people.

The rabbanim who participated in this gathering resolved to formulate enactments about the use of these technological advances, to be accepted by rabbanei Chabad around the world.

At the conclusion of the meeting, the rabbanim declared a psak din that Hashem should quickly heal Rabbi Chaim Yehuda Kalman ben Rochel shlita, and that the next mesibas kabbalas panim for rabbanim should take place in Yerushalayim with the revelation of the Rebbe MH”M.