By COLlive reporter
Photos by Elimelech Goldstein
Yud Shvat, the 70th anniversary of the Rebbe’s leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch, was marked with a series of Chassidic farbrengens in the Chabad community of New Haven, Connecticut.
Rabbi Reuven Wolf, a lecturer and director of the Maayon Yisroel center in Los Angeles, was flown in for the occasion and to inspire the men, women and bochurim.
Rabbi Wolf spoke to bochurim of the Mesivta, led by Rabbi Yosef Lustig, bochurim of the Zal led by Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kalmenson and menahel Rabbi Chanoch Bistritzky, and led a farbrengen for the women.
Later in the evening, he joined a grand farbrengen for members of the community organized by Ohel Yosef Yitzchok, led R’ Avi Dagan. The Shulounge and kollel of New Haven participated as well.
Participants sat around set tables for the farbrengen, with Chabad niggunim played by Yehuda Piamenta on the flute and Mendy Piamenta on the piano.
Rabbi Yonasan Reinitz opened with reading Bosi Legani with Rabbi Berel Levitin following him giving a synopsis of the maamar which was said on the day the Rebbe accepted the leadership of Chabad.
The guest speaker, Rabbi Wolf spoke about how “the world is ready for Moshiach,” and how the world is indeed permeated with G-dliness and is already a conduit for delivering G-d’s will, both by Jews and non-Jews. “Moshiach is already affecting the world,” he stated.
