Conference taveng::bagels

248.0. "Givat Pinhas Commemoration" by TAVENG::CHAIM (Le'Chaim) Thu Dec 11 1986 10:32

    I would  like to relate some of the events that took place in
    Jerusalem over the past week during the rememberance of the Yor
    Ziet (Annivesary of the day of passing) of the father of the Bostonner 
    Rebbe and the commemoration of Givat Pinhas (The Boston Hasidic Center 
    in Israel).
    
    All day Monday many prominant Rabbis and Rebbes came to the Bostoner Rebbe's
    apartment in Har Nof to write  letters in a Sefer Torah scroll
    that was donated to Givat Pinhas by the Goldman family from Brrokline.
    Among these were Rav Shach, Rav Shlomo Zalman Orbach, Rav Aharon
    Feldman, Dayan Weiss, Rav Avraham Ginechovsky, the Viznitzer Rebbe,
    the Belzer Rebbe, the Chustar Rav, and others...
    
    On Tuesday evening the Rebbe himself wrote the final letters into
    the Sefer Torah after which thousands of residents and guests escorted
    the Sefer Torah with singing and dancing from the Rebbe's apartment
    to the Holy Ark in Givat Pinhas. The prosession (Hachnasat Sefer
    Torah)  was accompanied by a band and children from the local
    Sanhedrin Talmud Torah who bore candels. 

    After the Hachnasat Sefer Torah there were some speaches from the
    Chief Sefardic Rabbi of Israel and the two Chief Rabbis of jerusalem.
    Two letters, one from President Reagan and one from Senator Kennedy,
    were read. The Rebbe offered a Le'Chaim (a toast) to all the guests.
    
    Later on that evening a dinner in honor of the Yor Ziet of the Rebbe's 
    father was held in Givat Pinhas. The Rebbe said over the final passage
    from the Talmud and said the Hadran (prayer said upon the finishing
    of the Talmud). The finishing of the Talmud was collective among
    the residents of Har Nof.
    
    The Rebbe spoke about the importance of reaching out to the needs
    of one's neighbor no matter what he be. The Rebbe emphasised that
    this is the true Midas Hachesed (trait of kindness) as seen through
    the actions of the Avot (our forefathers). This was also the Mida
    so prominantly found in Rav Pinhas David Zatzal (R.I.P), the Rebbe's
    father. 
    
    The dinner was accompanied by much singing and dancing.
    
    Cb.