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== Activities and Mission == He was among the ten Temimim (yeshiva students) with whom the Previous Rebbe made a covenant to dedicate themselves until their last drop of blood to matters of Judaism and Chassidism. He fulfilled this commitment with actual self-sacrifice. At the beginning of 1926, the Previous Rebbe sent Rabbi Ben Tzion and another young man to the towns of Vohlin to strengthen the Jews there in matters of Torah and mitzvot. The Vohlin district was a place where the Yevsektzia (Jewish Section of the Communist Party) ruled with full force, and in most cities there were no cheders (Jewish elementary schools) or Torah institutions, and Jews were afraid to conduct lives of Torah and mitzvot. Rabbi Ben Tzion and his colleague arrived at the location and "transformed" Vohlin. The Previous Rebbe wrote about him: "He was the first to reveal his desire to work, and was given the Vohlin district to work in, traveling to towns and awakening interest in cheders, public Torah study sessions, improving mikvahs and more. For two and a half years he worked with great diligence, establishing many dozens of cheders, delivering passionate speeches about setting times for Torah study, establishing societies for studying Talmud, Mishnah, Jewish law and aggadah, Tiferet Bachurim, and words of awakening regarding the purity of Jewish daughters, and a different spirit clothed Vohlin. In four places, large yeshivas were established (secretly) with outstanding Torah scholars as heads of yeshivas, and about three hundred students studied Talmud in these four locations with great depth and good conduct."
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