By COLlive reporter
Photos by Levik T.
Active as ever, Rabbi Shmuel Azimov has signed a lease Monday for a store front in the the 5th district of Paris to serve as the “Chabad House for Students.”
The long-time director of Beis Lubavitch of Paris was accompanied by his son Rabbi Mendy Azimov and the new center’s Shliach Rabbi Mendel Arnauve.
Located on a pedestrian street, the center is opening in cooperation with Chabad on Campus – Europe in merit of the Slager family, major supporters of Chabad activities for students in the U.S. and Europe.
On-hand for the exchanging of the keys was the former tenant, who ran LED-ON, a showroom for high tech lighting, who commented that he is Jewish and learned in a Chabad school in his youth.
Tefillin was quickly made available for him, marking the first Mitzvah performed in the center, and the plan is that there will be many more.
The center is strategically located near the Latin Quarter, known for its high concentration of educational and research establishments, including the prestigious Sorbonne, Collège de France, ENS and others.
Rabbi Arnauve plans to hold basic and advanced classes in Judaism at the new location, regular minyanim on weekdays and Shabbos, and lunch and Shabbos meals.
When it will be officially inaugurated next month, after renovation, the center will set a record for the Chabad outreach organization in the city, headed by Rabbi Shmuel Azimov.
COLlive.com checked and found that this center will make the number of Chabad institutions in the French capital over 60 centers operating in Paris.
This puts Chabad of Paris way ahead of any other city in the world with the largest number of Chabad Houses operating in a single city.
A distant second and third would be Moscow and New York City (not necessarily in that order), a source told COLlive.
In a recent interview, Rabbi Azimov relayed what the Rebbe told him when he was instructed to return to Paris as a Shliach in 1965 with his wife Rebbetzin Bassie Azimov OBM.
“The Rebbe told me to return to Paris, and he blessed me with ‘great success.'” He then said to me, “Do you know what ‘great success’ is? It is success beyond your expectations.”
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http://www.loubavitch.fr/pages/bethhabad/trouveruncentre.asp?idf=93
This supports what I posted in #4 and #6. The map on the right is of centers outside Paris proper.
according to your comment, i would like to add that Rabbi Azimov has about 100 shluchim under him in paris and suburbs, the largest jewish girls school with bh about 1800 girls not including the boys school, where not all the girls are necessarity lubavitch or frum yet and they all learn sichos with a very high level of kodesh and chassidus and also recognized one of the best schools by the french govt, 2000 children are in gan yisroel learning and having fun to be a good jew, besides all this, 170000 guides are distributed before a yom tov,… Read more »
Has 15 chabad houses
1 Rue Abbée de l’épée 75005 Paris
that’s the adress!
Also, in Paris proper, frum Jews live wherever they can find apartments that fit their needs. Reb Moule himself lives quite a distance from both his office and his shul which is the shul where the Rebbe davened.
Some of Reb Moule’s mekurovim have turned their apartments that are far from any Chabad center into informal Chabad centers where there are lectures after work at least a few days a week and even Shabbos davening. He does support them by sending speakers etc, and some of them are active enough to count as real Chabad houses.
what s the adress of this new chabad house?
There are some centers in the suburbs of Paris that are under Reb Moule. They’re not listed as Paris because technically they’re not in the city, but you can reach them with a simple transfer from the Paris metro to a commuter train. In any even, Reb Moule has done and continues to do amazing things in Paris, especially considering his present personal circumstances L”A (and the numbers of his mekuravim who are fleeing France for EY and Montreal because of antisemitism rather than continuing to help him build up Paris). Most of all, he is not in shlichus for… Read more »
to # 1
whats your point?
wishing this beis chabad and all the others much hatslacha
i think it’s beautiful,that in france more and more beth chabad,machiach he’s on his way
Paris = 34 centers.
Of the 34, 10 institutions are not under the jurisdiction of Beis lubavitch headed by Rabbi Azimov.
Please correct me me if I’m wrong. (And Chabad.org as well 🙂