Thursday, April 19, 2007
Chabad-Lubavitch Escorts Professor’s Body for Israeli Burial
As the body of Professor Liviu Librescu made its final journey to Israel aboard El Al Flight No. 2, Rabbi Motti Seligson sat next to his widow, Marlena Librescu, and discussed how best to honor his courage and self-sacrifice. When he informed her of the Chabad on Campus International Foundation’s plans for a national Shabbat candle lighting campaign on hundreds of college campuses this Friday, she “was very touched.”
“This was the one mitzvah, or good deed, beloved by Professor Librescu above all others,” explained Seligson, who traveled to Israel as a representative of Chabad of the Virginias. “Every Friday night, he would remind Mrs. Librescu when to light the candles to usher in the holy day of Shabbat.”
The candle lighting effort – a joint project with FridayLight.org – will usher in Chabad on Campus’ national “Hearts to Hokies” campaign, a weeklong push to get students to donate a good deed in the merit of the 32 students and faculty members of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., who were killed on April 16. The attack by fellow student Cho Seung-Hui, who later took his own life, was the deadliest shooting in American history.
http://www.chabad.edu/templates/articlecco.html?AID=506430
As the body of Professor Liviu Librescu made its final journey to Israel aboard El Al Flight No. 2, Rabbi Motti Seligson sat next to his widow, Marlena Librescu, and discussed how best to honor his courage and self-sacrifice. When he informed her of the Chabad on Campus International Foundation’s plans for a national Shabbat candle lighting campaign on hundreds of college campuses this Friday, she “was very touched.”
“This was the one mitzvah, or good deed, beloved by Professor Librescu above all others,” explained Seligson, who traveled to Israel as a representative of Chabad of the Virginias. “Every Friday night, he would remind Mrs. Librescu when to light the candles to usher in the holy day of Shabbat.”
The candle lighting effort – a joint project with FridayLight.org – will usher in Chabad on Campus’ national “Hearts to Hokies” campaign, a weeklong push to get students to donate a good deed in the merit of the 32 students and faculty members of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., who were killed on April 16. The attack by fellow student Cho Seung-Hui, who later took his own life, was the deadliest shooting in American history.
http://www.chabad.edu/templates/articlecco.html?AID=506430
Comments:
Chabad would never miss an opportunitylike this: Two birds in one -- PR and fundraisng!!
Save the BS about their selfless l'sheim shamayim for their gullibile victims.
Save the BS about their selfless l'sheim shamayim for their gullibile victims.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by 
: April 19, 2007 7:27 PM
: April 19, 2007 7:27 PM
why dont you go spend a shabbos with a shliach and see what they are really all about before you bad mouth them.The chabad people are always there for another jew no matter who,where,what,when.Go chabad!!!
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 19, 2007 8:40 PM
: April 19, 2007 8:40 PM
I think this levaya showed achdus among Jews, modern, Chassidish, Litvish, Lubavitch etc. Prof.Librescu Z"L was our Jewish brother. Why knock someone who is doing Chesed Shel Emes?
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 19, 2007 9:53 PM
: April 19, 2007 9:53 PM
To 7:27: i hope u are not a jewish person and i never meet u on the street, to write such a horrible thing about a jewish group no matter what u think they do, they've helped thousands of people return to their roots! and for your information they dont need fundraising as most normal people donate openhandedly to them without making such stupid assanine statements!
Dearest brother at 7:27. I hope your daughter marries a Lubavitcher and raises many little shluchim who you will be forced to love.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 20, 2007 8:24 AM
: April 20, 2007 8:24 AM
to the first sinas chinamnik comneter. You need to take a good hard look at yourself that you think everyone is out for themselves and no one could do a good deed just for the mitzvah.
You must be a very sad broken person.
I think this was a group effort, everyone was involved and it showed tremendous achdus!
You must be a very sad broken person.
I think this was a group effort, everyone was involved and it showed tremendous achdus!
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 20, 2007 8:58 AM
: April 20, 2007 8:58 AM
I ain't no lubavitcher but I know who to call if I'm stuck at almost any airport in the US 45 minutes before shabbos. These guys will pick you up and deliver you to a shabbos table minutes before shabbos. Half of the shluchim raise their kids in locations with no schools and barely a minyan on shabbos. If you think living in Lakewood is a nisayon, try living in Alabama. The Israeli government relied on these shluchim when they were looking for survivors of the tsunami. B"H for the rebbe/s foresight in placing these people wherever jewish people might walk.
By the way, the Rebbe is dead-get over it.
By the way, the Rebbe is dead-get over it.
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 20, 2007 1:18 PM
: April 20, 2007 1:18 PM
To 1:18: the whole thing u wrote was great and well appreciated but ur last comment was totally uncalled for
http://www.shturem.net/uploadfile/video/libresko.wmv?lang=hebrew
here is video of the funeral in israel
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here is video of the funeral in israel
Comment Credit ---This article posted by : April 22, 2007 1:52 PM
: April 22, 2007 1:52 PM
