Morristown
Morristown is a town and the county seat of Morris County in New Jersey, United States.
Chabad Community in the City edit
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Visits of the Rebbe Rayatz edit
Extended article - Morristown Visits
The Rebbe Rayatz (Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn) visited the "Sanatorium Morristown" health resort three times. In the years 5701 (1941), 5702 (1942), and 5704 (1944). During these visits, he would typically leave after Tisha B'Av and return before Chai Elul.
During his first visit in 5701 (1941), he traveled alone. He also traveled in 5702 (1942), and a trip was planned for 5703 (1943) but did not materialize[1].
On the 17th of Av 5704 (1944), the Rebbe Rayatz traveled, and during his stay there, news arrived about the passing of the Rebbe's father - Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson. The Rebbe (Menachem Mendel Schneerson) sat shiva in New York, and the Rebbe Rayatz wrote him a letter regarding mourning matters. On the 5th of Elul, the Rebbe traveled to the health resort in Morristown, and the Rebbe Rayatz delivered a sicha (talk) for him[2].
However, even in Morristown, the Rebbe's work did not cease, and he testified that "I could not rest."
Rabbi Nissan Mindel testified that the Rebbe Rayatz said in Morristown that "here there is an atmosphere of Torah."
These visits formed the foundation for Tomchei Tmimim Morristown.
Chabad Institutions in the City edit
- Tomchei Tmimim Morristown - The yeshiva was opened in Newark and moved to Morristown in the 1960's. In a private audience with the yeshiva's director, several locations besides Morristown were suggested to the Rebbe, but the Rebbe insisted upon Morristown. The yeshiva greatly influences the Jewish community of Morristown, with the majority relocating and centering around the Yeshiva campus. The yeshiva publishes the Kovetz Haoros Hatmimim V'Anash which was referenced the Rebbe in some of his talks. The yeshiva is headed by Rabbi Chaim Shapiro[3].
- Tiferes Bachurim Morristown - 'Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim' was established by The Rebbe through Rabbi Moshe Herson in 1972. The Rebbe told him in Yechidus "If this would be in the old country we would call it Tiferes Bachurim". Tiferes Bachurim was the name of the yeshiva which operated in the former Soviet Union for people who would otherwise not have had an opportunity to learn and to attend these Torah classes. It was in light of the above that this yeshiva was established to give students who were not raised in a Torah environment the opportunity to make up the learning and overall atmosphere that characterizes the jewish experience. Today the yeshiva is headed by Rabbi Yaakov Wagner.
- Machon Semicha Beis Medrash Menachem L'Hora'ah - A rabbinical ordination program headed by Rabbi Chaim Shapiro.
- Kollel - Headed by Rabbi Chaim Brafman.
- Cheder Lubavitch for Boys - Managed by Rabbi Aharon Wilshanski.
- Cheder Lubavitch Morristown for Girls - Managed by Mrs. Sarah Shochat[4].
- Levi Yitzchak Synagogue - Headed by the Mara D'Asra Rabbi Shneur Zalman Wilshanski OBM.
References edit
- ↑ He wanted to travel alone, and when some of the chassidim traveled after him, he stopped the journey and said a sicha [talk] before them that began like this: "Indeed, one doesn't tell those accompanying to leave, but it was already agreed at the beginning that he would travel alone." And thus they understood that they should leave.
- ↑ Regarding the conduct of his honor, my father, my master and teacher, the holy Rebbe in his days of mourning after his honored mother the righteous Rebbetzin". The Rebbe recorded after this the content of the sicha (printed in Sefer HaSichos 5704 [1944] page 160).
- ↑ Marked: The Yeshiva in Morristown Will Close After Seventy Years - on the website, 29 Teves 5775 (2015)
- ↑ The wife of Rabbi Chaim Shochet, rabbi of the Sephardic community of Wesley Hills, New York.