Chaim Shimshon, a proud Russian (whom we hope will grow up to emulate some other great Russians, such as Reb Mendel Futerfas at best, or Alexander Ovechkin at worst).
Someone asked me a good question in an email: why wasn't Yefim voted out by the community in the last election?
The answer: last election was this past summer. Yefim told only 5 of his friends about the date, time and place. Then he was revoted in. Apparently there's no rule which says he cannot do this.
Anyway, I got a cute email Erev Shabbos. It was sent when it was already Shabbos in Stavropol.
Dear Zvi,
Tonight we gathered together about 7 of us in the Sachnut where we prayed for your return and sang all the songs from the friday night prayer you taught us. We then ate a Shabbat meal. We hope you return, we don't want any other Rabbi. Say hello to Chaya and the kids...
Then theletter goes on to discuss other stuff.
I thought it was very cute.
3 comments:
Keep all the updates... Hope you'll soon be able to blog about life in Russia as oppose to media alerts!!
Second that... Feeling your pain - and it's 2:15am here.
Whatever!
Amen to that, Chaim
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