Nearly 200 boys and girls gathered together from different communities inside Manchester and from Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, Sheffield and even Edinburgh in Scotland to celebrate a 40th anniversary Tzivos Hashem Unity Rally.
The rally featured a joyful concert by local celebrity singer Buchy Gluck and a terrific acrobatic mountain bike show, with fantastic scooters and other prizes as raffle rewards for the children’s cooperation and simcha.
The event was initiated almost a year ago by a generous sponsor who suggested that when the lockdown would finally be over and children could gather again it would be a wonderful opportunity to make a grand rally to show gratitude to Hashem for their new freedom.
Since this would be the first occasion when we here in Manchester could mark the 40th anniversary of our Tzivos Hashem organization the two themes were fused together.
Little did we know when the date was fixed that the rally would take place in the midst of a deadly war between Russia and Ukraine which would give us the added opportunity for so many children to daven for the safety of the Jews and other innocent victims of this military encounter. This was so much one of the Rebbe’s missions for children.
Tzivos Hashem, a project of Lubavitch Manchester, has been run since its inception by Dov Ber Klein and his wife Sonia. During the rally Dov Ber related to the children the history of Tzivos Hashem and its varied Peulos in Manchester and then Rabbi Shmuli Brown, Campus Rabbi at Liverpool University, spoke about his childhood memories and how he had been inspired to set up Tzivos Hashem in Ukraine.
It was so appropriate that he should lead the Tefillos for Ukraine. Towards the end of the rally an extra video was made to show to Jewish victims out in Ukraine the energy and the welcoming mood of Jewish children here in Manchester
Buchy Gluck’s musical performance exuded the Simcha of Adar and the children responded with tremendous Achdus ,singing and dancing.
The experience and atmosphere were unforgettable and the event was topped by the phenomenally professional acrobatic bike show which had the children totally spellbound.
Following the great success of this concert rally it is planned in Shnas Hakhel to make another giant concert rally, hopefully in Yerusholayim!
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May Hashem bless you for many more years in good health.