Jewish Life Digital Edition January 2014 | Page 25

Jews effectively used something as powerful as one of the great fundamentals of
Judaism with which to represent our Yiddishkeit.
It was precisely this level of unity and this
level of connection to our Judaism that was
on full display as countless Jews of wildly
varying levels of religious observance and in
everything from pants to sheitels and tshirts to long black coats, gathered around
the Rebbe to receive a brocha (a blessing).
The Rebbe was here for just over a week,
and along with talking at different shuls,
schools and community centres, he would
spend something in the vicinity of six
hours a day sitting in a nu