Mivtza Tefillin in Middle of Camp, In The Middle of Nowhere
It was just another “regular” exciting day in CGI Melbourne summer camp, when bunk Temimim had the privilege to go on a normal trip canoeing. As the day went on the Campers learned why a Lubavitcher never leaves without his Teffilin • Full Story, Photos
It was just another “regular” exciting day in CGI Melbourne summer camp, when bunk Temimim had the privilege to go canoeing.
It was just about a 8 minute walk away from camp, and it’s in the middle of nowhere – Harrietville, Victoria.
Before they left, one of the Bochurim made sure to get his Tefilin, for wherever he goes he makes sure to take his Tefilin along.
The immediate reaction he got was “we’re in the middle of nowhere, not going anywhere, and there are no Yidden around anyways, don’t bother to Shlep your Tefilin”.
And besides, his Mivtzoim Tefilin was actually by mistake locked up in a closet…
But he insisted and went ahead and took his regular Tefilin with him.
On their way back to camp, walking through unpaved walking paths, suddenly a young man walks out from between the bushes.
One of the Bochurim noticed and reacted saying “let’s ask him if he’s Jewish”.
Without hesitating, he approaches the man, and was surprised to get a response “I’m not so sure if I’m Jewish”.
“What do you mean?”
“Well, my great-grandmother was Jewish.”
Turned out that his mother’s mother’s mother was Jewish!
So we explained him that he’s just as Jewish as Moses and just as ourselves.
He was very interested, and we right away used the opportunity telling him about a Bar Mitzvah and the significance of putting on Tefilin, and telling him “we actually have a pair of Tefilin right here with us!”
He then told us that he actually just recently put them on for the first time when he met a few guys from California in Melbourne, when he showed us the picture we were shocked! They were the Shluchim to Yeshiva College here in Melbourne, who were right now with us together in camp as well!
He got very excited, and we put on the Tefilin together, saying the Berachos and Shema, followed by saying it all in English, which found him very interesting, and he was clearly really touched.
After we finished, he expressed a big interest in learning more about Yidishkeit, which we obviously are more than happy to follow up with.
This was a big inspiration for all, to take our Tefilin wherever we go, and we’ll never know when an opportunity can arise, and we can’t afford to miss out on it…
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