News Blog - Chabad Center of Sudbury

AN ENCOUNTER WITH A CAR MENORAH IN SUDBURY

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 - 12:29 PM

c 21 5.jpg This evening on the way home from the Chanukah celebration in Marlborough, I said to my children, "let's take a drive down Route 20 and maybe someone else will be cheered up by the Menorah on our car". We drove down Boston Post Road and pulled in to the Rugged Bear Plaza to check on the large Menorah that is there and my son Mendel started adjusting the correct number of lit bulbs.

All of a sudden a car pulls in, and the driver rolls down the window and asks to chat with us about our Menorah.

We then had a nice and meaningful conversation which at times became emotional as he shared his story of how he grew up, and was the poorest boy in the class who couldn't afford synagogue membership and couldn't go to services. He de… Read More »

My First Visit to my Parents in Two Years

Monday, November 22, 2021 - 3:29 PM

After two long years in which I hadn't been able to see my parents, today I was finally able to see them in person, when I got off the plane and arrived at London Heathrow Airport.

It was a moment that was truly worthy of a Shehechiyanu blessing, as I was finally able to give them an embrace, and give them the joy of a child coming home to visit.

For so long we could not visit even though I was vaccinated, and then when they finally changed the rules so that we could fly, my family and myself came down with COVID. Now, while I am still within the ninety days from having had COVID, it was the perfect time to finally make this visit happen and to take the flight across the pond.

My five year old daughter who helped drop … Read More »

Lessons from two 95 year old heroes

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 2:41 PM

In the last few days two 95 year old Jewish heroes passed away, one in the suburbs of Boston and one thousands of miles away in Jerusalem.

Each one of them made a profound impact on the world in their own unique way and certainly helped make a better and brighter world. Perhaps by taking a moment to read their stories we can honor their memory and what they stood for and help continue the messages that they stood for and shared with us.

Binyamin Wertzburger was a young survivor of a Concentration Camp who remembered being tormented by a Nazi Guard and told how he will die in the camp and never see Jerusalem. Yet miraculously despite having weighed just 26kg and going through so much, he survived the war and made it to Israel and b… Read More »