Editing Asher Sasonka (section)

== In Eretz Hakodesh ==
As per the Rebbe's request that he stay with his family for several years, he lived for several years in Yerushalayim (with his father and family) and then in France (with his wife Mrs. Freida and his son). His father, Rabbi Nachum Shmarya, lived in the Rabbis' Housing, about a ten-minute walk from Shikun Chabad. On Shabbos, he would come to pray in the Shikun Chabad synagogue, even though his father prayed in the 'Baal HaTanya' synagogue in Meah Shearim. R' Asher, as someone who had been moser nefesh for Torah and mitzvos in Russia, couldn't bear to see people there living in tranquility, and additionally, the communication between him and them wasn't successful as they didn't speak the same language. Nevertheless, everyone enjoyed hearing and seeing the chassidic figure. After several years, he traveled to New York, where he established his residence near the Rebbe's court in the Crown Heights neighborhood.