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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 489-490, no. 10
R. Eliyahu farbrenged with every layer of the community — schoolboys, yeshiva students, middle-aged men and the elderly — always knowing which story or saying suited his listeners, and his Shabbos afternoon farbrengens in shul often lasted until sunset. He was a pillar of the community: he assisted the Chabad institutions in Toronto, those who had escaped Soviet oppression, Colel Chabad in Eretz Yisroel and Lishkas Ezras Achim, and he was among the Rashag's foremost local aides when the Rashag came on behalf of the central Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in New York. Past retirement age he trained educators in a teacher's seminary, guided youngsters at camp as though he were one of them, and was among the first to open a Kollel Tiferes Zekainim - Levi Yitzchok when the Rebbe proposed it. Well-versed in nigleh and Chassidus, he gave Tanya shiurim to professors and doctors and, for twenty consecutive years, to the community's leading businessmen, and he publicly repeated the Rebbe's maamarim and sichos, all alongside an intense personal learning regimen acquired despite years of hardship and suffering.
3 min to tellgood to tell
440 wordsR. Eliyahu Akiva Lipskar
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 423-424, no. 8
After several years learning in Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch, Zalman returned to Homil, but always thirsted to be in Lubavitch and traveled there at least once a year for Rosh Hashanah, and whenever else he could. In the summer of 5674 (1914) the railroad introduced a cheaper class of travel, so he seized the opportunity and hurried to Lubavitch for Shavuos. Fearing that he would be stopped from going, he left secretly and told his brother to inform everyone only after he was gone.
1 min to tellvery good to tell
105 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 421-423, no. 2
Following his grandfather and mentor, Zalman left for Lubavitch at age fifteen, arriving on Lag B'Omer 5666 (1906) and joining the branch of Tomchei Temimim in Horoditch. A year later, at sixteen, he transferred to the yeshivah in Lubavitch itself, in close proximity to the Rebbe Rashab. The atmosphere of Lubavitch stayed with him for life; he later wrote that to record one's memories of Lubavitch one would need the talent of a painter, to be an artist.
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100 wordsR. Zalman Duchman
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As I Heard Them, Vol. 1, pp. 468-469, no. 2
When the Leningrad siege broke, the Duchman family fled to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where a chassidic community was flourishing, and after the war they escaped Russia on false Polish passports. They lived for the next few years, with thousands of other refugees, in the displaced persons camp in Poking, Germany. Yisroel then left his family to study in the Tomchei Temimim yeshivah in Brunoy, France under the mashpia R. Nissan Nemenov, and in 5710 he became engaged to Rochel Rubashkin, daughter of R. Getzel and Rosa, marrying her on the 15th of Elul.
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110 wordsR. Yisroel Duchman
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