Editing Raphael Nachman Cohen (section)

==== His Aliyah to the Land of Israel ====
When leaving for the Land of Israel, he traveled through Vienna in order to meet the Rebbe Rayatz who was then in the resort town of Purkersdorf near Vienna. There he met with the Rebbe Rayatz and the Rebbe. On that occasion, the Rebbe Rayatz blessed him saying, "May we hear good tidings from one another."

When the Cohen family boarded the train to travel toward the port, they were surprised to see the Rebbe arrive with chocolate for the children. The Rebbe explained that his father-in-law had asked him "to see how you traveled."

When he arrived in the Land of Israel, he was offered to live in Haifa, which was also the only place where he was offered a livelihood. However, he insisted on living specifically in Tel Aviv, where he suffered from terrible poverty and worked hard all day paving roads. When asked why he insisted on living specifically in Tel Aviv, he replied that the Rebbe had told him while still abroad that he needed to strengthen the chassidim who had arrived in Tel Aviv!

After some years, he moved to live in Ramat Gan where he worked for his livelihood as a milkman. Immediately upon his arrival in the country, without wasting a moment, he began frantically rushing between various government offices to obtain entry visas to the Land of Israel for many chassidim who remained in Russia.

It was customary in Ramat Gan that on Simchat Torah, all the Chabad families with their wives and children would gather in the home of Reb Folleh, and he would farbreng with all the passionate warmth of his soul, as was his way. After the long and uplifting farbrengen, everyone - the chassidim in front, followed by the families and their descendants - would march in formation, with singing and dancing, toward the Rabbi's house to drink and farbreng a bit, and from there they would enter all the homes of the chassidim, staying in each apartment for a short "mini-farbrengen." The few Chabad homes in Ramat Gan were scattered throughout the city, so the procession had to cross main roads. Whenever they reached a busy road, Reb folleh would stand upright in the middle of it, stopping all traffic, explaining in a loud and joyful voice about Simchat Torah, encouraging Torah observance and mitzvot, and concluding with sweeping enthusiasm: "Today is Simchat Torah, we must rejoice, dance and even do somersaults!" And then, before the amused-astonished eyes of all the drivers and their passengers (most of whom knew him...), the enthusiastic Reb Folleh would jump and do a somersault in the middle of the main road - and other chassidim would roll after him. This happened every time the procession crossed a road. This was Simchat Torah in Ramat Gan, year after year, with Reb Folleh. The Rebbe mentioned him at the Purim farbrengen of 5716 (1956) after he had expressed at a farbrengen (after saying l'chaim) that the Chazon Ish (one of the greatest rabbis among the Lithuanian Jews who had passed away two years earlier) envied a Chabad child who studies Tanya (the Rebbe said that the postal service in Israel became wealthy due to the letters sent about this).

In his later years he was sickly, but endured it with supreme courage.

He was among the founders of the Oholei Yosef Yitzchak network in the Holy Land.