A field trip to Kabooms Amusement Park was an opportunity for the staff and campers of Camp Gan Israel Miami to do Mivtzoim with other park visitors.
The group met a Reform Jewish camp, and offered the campers to put on Tefillin. Many of the campers agreed, and two of them had a “Bar Mitzvah,” as they had never put Tefillin on before.
On their way out of the park, the camp’s Assistant Director Leibel Khazanovitch and counselor Eli Weiss met a 91-year-old man. They sparked a conversation with him and heard that he is indeed Jewish.
Would you like to put on Tefillin, they asked.
The man agreed and began tearing up.
He said the thought of Tefillin brought back memories of his childhood days in Yeshiva on New York’s Lower East Side.
“As a child my friends nicknamed me ‘Rabbi’ because I was the only one that went to a Jewish school,” he told the boys.
He then added a sad admission, “I have not put on Tefillin since back then…”
With tears in his eyes but a happy heart, the man wrapped the Tefillin on his arm and head and said, “Shema Yisroel…”
A 91-year-old writer and campaigner was hailed as the Labour conference star speaker as he brought delegates to tears with recollections of poverty and premature death before the creation of the National Health Service.
Your brother loves you
kol hakavod!
So special for our young kids who were on the trip to see their counselors doing such things proudly! Nothing like good role models for our kids!
nice picture and nice smiles.
I’ll take a few brochures with me to the doctor’s office today to leave next to the magazines.
Keep up the good work!
Love to see this!
Moshiach NOW!!!
Go Leibel and Eli
So so precious.
How lucky we are to be given the opportunity to touch a yiddishe neshoma.
Thank you to the Rebbe for giving us this zchus!
Shepping nachas like a boss bro. Keep it up you’re awesome.
-BK
Laibel. U R Z Best!!!!
Rabbi B
keep up the good work!
Your awesome Leibel!! The camp is so lucky to have you. You make a kiddush hashem everywhere you go.