By COLlive reporter
At the staff meeting of Camp Gan Israel of Detoit, Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm, Shliach in Norway and past head counselor, related interesting stories about the camp and the Rebbe.
One story was regarding a sicha the Rebbe gave from his home on President Street to campers returning from the Detroit camp on 3 Elul, 5748.
When the kids arrived back to New York at the end of camp, the staff decided to bring them to the rebbe’s house for Mincha, Wilhelm said.
When they came there, Mincha was just finishing. They went inside the house and started singing the niggun “ksiva vchasima tova.” It was in that summer that the staff had put those words to that tune. They sang while the Rebbe was leaving to go upstairs.
“The Rebbe suddenly came back down and said a sicha,” Rabbi Wilhelm recalled.
During the sicha, the Rebbe spoke about children being proud of their Yiddishkeit and walking around, publicly, with tzitzis.
Rabbi Wilhelm told the staff that after the sicha they were wondering why the Rebbe mentioned Tzitzis and then realized that one of the subjects they had taught in Learning Class during the summer was tzitzis.
They have reported that fact in the their ‘Duch’ they wrote in, and the Rebbe has read every word.
That story appears in this week’s Living Torah video magazine by JEM:
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Yes, my dear friend,that is what it says in the article.
It’s so interesting and nice that even though these are frum kids, and there is no question about them wearing tzitzis etc. the Rebbe still mentions it, that it’s still something to point out and appreciate, not take for granted.
Read the whole article !
one of the things that thay learnt that summer was about tzizes and that was one of the things the rebbe spoke about and athere things allso