By COLlive reporter
It has already become an annual tradition of the Worldwide Chevra Tehillim to gather on Isru Chag of Shavuos at the resting place of Dovid Hamelech, the composer of the book of Tehillim.
The gathering and seudas mitzvah took place this year in the Old City of Jerusalem at Kever Dovid, in honor of his yartzeit which is on the second day of Shavuos.
The Worldwide Chevra Tehillim was founded 75 years ago by the Frierdiker Rebbe to help the plight of the Jewish people during the terrible time of the Holocaust when Jewish blood was shed and entire communities were destroyed.
“With their prayers, and the praises of Dovid Hamelech, they will protect the Jewish people and will bring about the victory of justice and righteousness, thus easing the pangs of Moshiach,” the Frierdiker Rebbe wrote at the time.
Twenty-seven years ago, in 5750, our Rebbe renewed this institution by requesting from the administration of Kolel Chabad to reinstate the practice of the Chevra Tehillim for the benefit of the Jewish People. Since then there is a regular minyan of Chasidim and wonderful Yerushalmi Jews who get together daily to recite the entire book of Tehillim and pray for all those who are in need of a yeshua.
In attendance were Rabbi Zev Dov Slonim, Mashpia Rabbi Tuvia Zilbershtrom, Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Heilperin, and Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Deutch, representative of the Kolel Chabad administration, and director of Chevra Tehillim.
Speakers extolled the great merit of the members of the Worldwide Chevra Tehillim, as well as the distinguished organizer, Rabbi Efraim Prus, who gather daily, rain or shine to recite Tehillim for the entire Jewish nation.
Special thanks were given to Rabbi Shmuel Mendelson for his all his help in arranging this gathering.
