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The Dayan Rabbi Avraham Zarbiv was deeply impressed by the unique personality of the educator and shliach Rabbi Zalman Tuvia HaKohen Abelsky, Chief Rabbi of Moldova and its capital Kishinev and the first of the shluchim to the Commonwealth states, as told in the fascinating book on his life, “R’ Zalman der Lubavitcher.”

The book, edited by the shliach Rabbi Menachem Mendel Zalmanov, grandson of the Chief Rabbi of Moldova, brings readers the Jewish strengths of mesirus nefesh and hiskashrus to the Rebbe, and the story of Rabbi Abelsky’s life and many shlichusos.

Its pages carry stories and memories published for the first time, opening fascinating chapters from the life of a chossid mekushar to the Rebbe: from the years of mesirus nefesh in Communist Russia, through his clandestine shlichus to Romania on behalf of the Rebbe Maharyatz, his role in founding the educational institutions of the Oholei Yosef Yitzchok Chabad-Lubavitch network in Eretz Yisroel, and his many activities spreading Yiddishkeit and Chassidus.

Then came the shlichus to the Commonwealth states and his state of shlichus, Moldova, where he rebuilt and revived the communities and Jewish life, igniting thousands of Jews with the flame of Torah and mitzvos out of firm hiskashrus to the Rebbe Melech HaMoshiach – torches of light for the greeting of Moshiach Tzidkeinu.

During the meeting, Rabbi Zarbiv looked through the book and expressed his great impression of the figure of the shliach Rabbi Zalman HaKohen Abelsky, of his mesirus nefesh and of the story of his many shlichusos as documented in the book – a life’s tractate of an educator and shliach, suffused with hiskashrus and mesirus nefesh for the Rebbe’s shlichus and for the spreading of Yiddishkeit and Chassidus.

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