Unwilling to allow the taboos of frum drug reliance and other substance abuse addictions to go un-remedied, a group of experienced and qualified individuals have opened a Jewish and Torah principled Recovery Residence in the San Fernando valley of Los Angeles, called Hitorreri.
The house seeks to provide a caring environment where residents will be provided with highly qualified guidance in dealing with their addictions. This will go alongside a program of study, reflection and empowerment helping our residents find positive identities critical to their enduring sobriety.
The house provides 3 daily nutritious meals from its fully Kosher kitchen. Hittoreri is also committed to providing quality amenities including daily physical recreational activities such as mindfulness meditation, yoga, surfing, horseback riding, fitness training and membership to a state-of-the-art health club.
Other unique aspects of the program include periodic meditation hikes of some of the most beautiful hiking trails and farms in Southern California. Thursday night farbrengens, where residents can share and join in discussions pertinent to themselves and the world, and Motzei shabbos kumzitz around the fireplace, with dynamic local musicians.
The staff at Hittoreri recognize the importance of helping our residents create a healthy support system he can integrate into his daily life when his is finished with our program.
With that in mind, they have also built a solid social network of families and shuls close to our beautiful facility. This will provide an opportunity for the residents to experience the beauty of family, community, shabbos and prayer, in a non-judgmental environment and at their own pace. Residents will once again be exposed to the beauty of their heritage, and the satisfaction of living a meaningful and fulfilling life, without dependence of addictive substances.
Residents at the house are under the caring and watchful supervision of house director Mordechai Osainitz. Motti fell into a life of drugs and alcohol at the age of 19. Going through the 12 step program along with religious principles allowed Motti to find a life of meaningful sobriety. He has since completed counselling school and managed a 25 bed residential treatment center. In pursuing his dream of helping all those hurting from the pain of addiction he joined Hitorreri as the house director.
Motti is ably assisted by the house Rabbi, Rabbi Shmulik Schneerson. Rabbi Schneerson received his smicha from Rabbi Faitel Levin. He has counselled many young men fighting addiction by volunteering at Residential Treatment Centers in Los Angeles.
In pursuing his calling of helping those who suffer with addiction, Rabbi Schneerson is well on his way to achieving his master’s degree in psychology.
The Hitorreri program is ably administrated by Elliot Liebhard. A New York native with a passion for business development, Elliot was one of the founders of Hitorreri. Liebhard noticed the real need for a highly professional frum Treatment center. Elliot hopes to ensure that Hitorreri is constantly innovating in keeping the house to the highest possible material and treatment standards.
Hitorreri is affiliated with the Renewal Sobriety Out-Patient Treatment Center. The center is located in Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, and has a group of high quality medical professionals including dynamic Rabbis on board.
These Rabbis include Rabbi Yekusiel Kalmenson with underpinning guidance and classes from Rabbi Shais Taub.
Hitorreri is pleased with the services that Renewal Sobriety brings to the table. This includes psychiatry, therapy, meditation groups and group therapy. All of this state-of-the-art treatment is soon to be enhanced with equine therapy, music therapy, art therapy and other creative individual-centric therapies.
For more details see Hittoreri.com
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Yes! Unfortunately there is a major need for this program in our religious community and finally these amazing people stepped up to the plate. Amazing work!
I am so impressed! These yidden saw a need in klal yisroel and reallly delivered. A regular drug rehab can fix an addiction but unfortunately damages the neshama by over exposing them to too much non jewishness during their time there. Hopefully this will be the solution. May hashem grant you much hatzlocha in your endeavors and may you have much success!
its about time we have such a thing in the frum community. Thanks you and good luck !
Great job, unfortunately this is much needed in the community . Much hatzlacha!
I am reading all these comments and wondering is there really such a need for this idea? Is this issue so widespread?
It is about time that we face this problem and not sweep it under the rug.. Thank you for bringing it out…
With your dedication & love for helping others, I have no doubt it will be a huge success!
I might even come join 🙂 Well, maybe.
-Cousin Levi
I can tell you Rabbi Schneerson has changed my life. A program like this is long overdue.. Wishing you much luck
This place seems to be top of the line! I am a mentor to many young women in pain. Most have received care at Mormon Rehab centers. Oftentimes, no Kosher food is allowed in and certainly no place for religious discussion. Our community needs to have a place for these vulnerable young women. As an aside, to the one who asked about cost: I have no doubt this will cost those who go for treatment an arm and a leg but you must understand that rehab centers are rarely reimbursed for anything and the cost of upkeep is sky high.… Read more »
His talent for connecting to each individual is unique, and I’m sure will sure the center well. Hatzlacha rabbah to all involved!
Kol hakoavod r shmulik its about time they have center which caters to those from frum homes.
This sounds like an amazing dream team for such a noble endeavor! this is truly filling a much needed void in our community! Kol hakavod to you all… Wish I could help somehow…we all know someone who can use this… I guess if I know anyone who will go I’ll send them you way. Hatzlocha!
KAL Hakovod to Hittoreri. Great staff great amenities.. This looks very promising
Finally! this wonderful initiative is long overdue. Instead of burying their head in the sand this wonderful group of people have taken on one of the most pressing issues of our day.
I personally know some of the Rabbis.
Rabbi Taub is legendary for his wisdom and Rabbi kalmenson is a gem of a mensch. His warmth, care and vision, not to mention his deep insight on this topic will ensure that this program stands out in the field of recovery and produces real change in many lives. Hatzlacha Raba!
Is a true gem in the Los Angeles community…
If your in new York, better off going to this place , simply you need that change of place
I don’t know most of the staff personally, but rabbi Kalmenson is definitely something special- he helped someone I know- with compassion and wisdom and such a generous spirit. I Met him a few times and he has this extraordinary, positive energy that is so appealing ! Lucky residents – tho they shouldn’t need his services for long
Rabbi Schneerson and his wife have been serving the needs of our youth for many years in a very positive manner. I have personally witnessed a case in which the couple with their kind and understanding ways were able to pull a youth from great emotional and abusive depths to a positive place with higher values and understanding and approach in life.
We wish them much hatzlacha in this most important en-devour.
The rehab looks beautiful! Hopefully, with the help of HaShem and the amazing staff those who need help will have a complete recovery.
This is a much needed facility for the boys who come from frum homes.
Bhatzlacha!
This place looks and sounds incredible. I’m a big fan of rabbi Shais taub and rabbi Yekusiel Kalmenson. I know Kalmenson a little better- and he is a brilliant guy with a huge heart. Wish you all the greatest success
Now that’s something very important that ppl have been waiting for for years….. Thank you so much! Much hatzlacha!
I must be so from yester year. Has this terrible Machle afflicted the Frumme Oilom? I must be so so out of touch and reality. However, if this is unfortunately the case, then kudos and huge Yasher Koach to all involved that are attending to the afflicted and their families.
כל המקיים נפש אחת בישראל כאילו קיים עולם מלא
This is truly amazing. Hopefully it will be helpful to those who need it. That’s the tricky part – getting those who need it to use it. Now we just have to remember that women also need a center like this as well.
There is such a need for a wraparound style rehab, which isn’t just a sober living but comprehensive stimulating program which is the only way to make real changes. It seems like this is what the intention is. I hope it is, and wish them so much success in saving these precious souls.
Long overdue!
If not it sounds great.
I wish there was some place like that for people who needed guidance or mentoring for problems other then drug addiction.
It would be wonderful to be able to go have such amenities (especially including horseback riding) while getting such guidance for other problems or issues in life.
I am so glad Rabbi Kalmenson is utilizing his talents for the recovery community. His legendary recovery classes have helped so many people achieve sobriety.
Wishing Rabbi Kalmenson and his amazing staff much success!
This is excellent news for recovering addicts and their families.
Rabbi Shneerson has a unique gift of caring and guiding young men going through recovery. He is devoted to the cause with his heart and soul.
Rabbi Taub is a world class expert in addiction treatment and will no doubt guide and advise like only he knows how.
This center will no doubt quickly become the best of the best in the field
I’m glad that the frum community is addressing this very real need. I checked out the website, and it looks like they’re offering the perfect blend of nature, professionalism, and grounded spirituality. Yasher koach!
This is excellent news for recovering addicts and their families.
Rabbi Shneerson has a unique gift of caring and guiding young men going through recovery. He is devoted to the cause with his heart and soul.
Rabbi Taub is a world class expert in addiction treatment and will no doubt guide and advise like only he knows how.
This center will no doubt quickly become the best of the best in the field
What initiative! This project is incredible, kudos to it’s founders and all of its supporters! May you have the greatest success, that your centre will shut down for lack of addicts 😉
All that is needed now is for soon to be recovering addicts to check in and start the healing.
Hatzlaacha, and Refuah shalayma shalayma to all.
The Jewish world needs to be more proactive in facing the challenge of addiction.. It is important for all of us to be more vocal and supportive to our brothers in need!!! This program looks to be exactly what we need..
I’m so happy that this place opened. It has been sorely needed for a long time. Yasher coach!
As someone who deals with addiction, this is a wonderful piece of news. Many frum people come to rehabs nearby where we live, and try to maintain some level of kosher. a fully kosher rehab with these high quality staff is a gem. May no one need their services. But in the meantime that addiction is so prevalent in our communities, now they will have a place to go.
I’m amazed. I wish it can be for women too…
This is excellent news for recovering addicts and their families.
Rabbi Shneerson has a unique gift of caring and guiding young men going through recovery. He is devoted to the cause with his heart and soul.
Rabbi Taub is a world class expert in addiction treatment and will no doubt guide and advise like only he knows how.
This center will no doubt quickly become the best of the best in the field
Kol hakavod. Unfortunately this is very needed. That boys can go to a place, run by frum professionals in a good atmosphere is amazing. Much hatzlacha.
Mamash incredible. Long overdue…these rabbis are highly qualified and have helped me personally.