By COLlive reporter
Two young Chassidic boys were seen with their father at the Freedom Tower observatory at One World Trade Center in New York City on Sunday.
It was more than tourist curiosity that drew them there, said the father, Rabbi Reuven Goldstein, Director of Chabad of Cupertino in California.
Monday, 28th of Sivan and 4th of July, is a double celebration for Lubavitcher Jews living in the United States of America.
The vision of the Founding Fathers, marked on Independence Day on the 4th of July, is a vision of a country in which “In G-d We Trust,” without fear of repercussion, the Rebbe has pointed out.
The Rebbe often emphasized how America was a “malchus shel chesed” (a kind regime) which allows for everyone to worship freely and supports education and humanitarian efforts.
As a naturalized citizen, the Rebbe was most grateful to the country which welcomed him and his wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, at 10:30 A.M. on Monday, Sivan 28 on the Jewish calendar (June 23, 1941).
Their journey to the New York Harbor started by escaping Nazi-occupied Paris, and spending many perilous months in Vichy, France, until boarding the SS Serpa Pinto in Lisbon, Portugal.
Shortly after his arrival, the Rebbe’s father-in-law, the then Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchak Schneersohn, appointed him to head the social and educational outreach programs of Chabad-Lubavitch.
Thus the Rebbe began his decades-long revolutionary work to revitalize Jewish life in the Western Hemisphere, which spread, by means of Shluchim he dispatched from his New York headquarters, to every part of the world.
Rabbi Goldstein was seen explaining this to his children Mendel Goldstein and Shimmy Goldstein as they stood on the look out of the Freedom Tower.
Today, we are proud Jews and grateful Americans.
VIDEO:
Documentary by JEM with first-hand accounts from those who were actually present at the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s arrival on American soil.
Interviewees: Rabbis Yitzchak Groner, Leibel Posner, Dovid Edelman, and Hershel Fogelman.
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