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=== Career as a Shochet === | === Career as a Shochet === | ||
To better provide for his family and enable them to eat chicken and meat, Shano trained as a shochet (ritual slaughterer). He approached this role with characteristic perfectionism and religious dedication. | To better provide for his family and enable them to eat chicken and meat, Shano trained as a shochet (ritual slaughterer). He approached this role with characteristic perfectionism and religious dedication. However that all changed, Once, business was slow and Yosef Levi fell asleep in his booth. When a customer walked in, he woke up. But while he shechted the customer’s chicken, his yarmulke slipped off his head for a moment. Was this a sign he lacked yiras Shamayim? Should he stop doing shechitah? | ||
Shortly afterward he received an answer to his questions, but it wasn’t what he expected. He found out that after he left work on Friday afternoon, before Shabbos, the market continued to take chickens from customers and kill them, as if Yosef Levi had slaughtered them according to halachah. On the spot, Yosef Levi made a promise to only shecht for himself. | |||
=== Work at Lehman Brothers Clothing Company === | === Work at Lehman Brothers Clothing Company === | ||
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His return to Montreal came at the heartfelt plea of his daughter Rivkah, who wrote, "I cannot live any longer without you." Her son Aaron Chaiton noted that "You never saw respect for a father like my mother had." | His return to Montreal came at the heartfelt plea of his daughter Rivkah, who wrote, "I cannot live any longer without you." Her son Aaron Chaiton noted that "You never saw respect for a father like my mother had." | ||
== | == Connection to Lubavitch == | ||
During World War II, when nine Lubavitcher students arrived in Montreal via Shanghai as refugees, Shano finally fulfilled his dream of spending time with chassidim in Montreal. He was particularly moved by their joyous celebration of Simchas Torah in 1942 at the Nusach Ari shul, where the refugees, despite not knowing the fate of their families, danced with incredible joy and performed acrobatic feats. That evening, watching Rabbi Moshe Elya Gerlitzky give a drasha and then return to dancing with renewed vigor, Shano told his son-in-law Noteh Rosenblum, "I like him. He is full of energy. You should take him for a son-in-law. If need be, you should sell your last shirt for him to be part of your family." After they established the first full-time yeshivah, he sent his youngest grandson, Aaron Chaiton, to study there. | |||
== | == Chabad Descendants == | ||
Reb Yosef Levi has many descendants who are deeply Rooted in the Chabad community. Among his many descendants, the Andrusier, Gerlitzky, Chaiton, and Lerner families proudly trace their lineage back to him, carrying forward his legacy with dedication and faith. | |||