‘Roving Rabbis’ visit

As part of a seven-decade old program dubbed ‘The Roving Rabbis’, two Rabbinical students are visiting the Mat-Su Valley this August as part of their community outreach training. The young Rabbis-in-training will be spending their summer on the road, sharing their love for Jewish life and bringing positivity, meaning and spiritual guidance wherever they go, for everyone they meet. Rabbis Levi Levertov, of Austin, Texas, and Yisroel Treitel, of Montreal, Canada, will conduct their visits during the period of August 2- August 21. Throughout their 3-week visit, Levertov and Treitel will be reaching out to members of the community in the region - most often in one-on-one home visitations - listening, talking and teaching as they seek to reinvigorate people’s spiritual connections and bring messages of goodness and kindness to all.

For the rabbis-in-training, this summer assignment will also provide an invaluable on-the-ground experience in outreach and the specific challenges of smaller Jewish communities, as well as a unique appreciation for the diverse composition and needs of the communities in the Mat-Su. Conceived by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson of righteous memory, in the early 1940s, the visitation program has been credited with bolstering and rejuvenating countless communities and individuals around the world. “The goal is to make Judaism and its universal values of doing acts of good deeds and respect for humanity accessible and relevant to every individual, wherever they may be,” says Rabbi Mendy Greenberg, director and founder of the Mat-Su Jewish Center in Wasilla. The program has seen rabbinical students visit more than 100 countries around the globe and every one of the United States, this year 350 Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students have been dispatched to Jewish communities in Asia, Europe, the Americas and beyond.

For more information or to request a visit please email rabbi@matsujewishcenter.org.

ABOUT THE SPONSORING ORGANIZATION

Chabad-Lubavitch is a world-wide Jewish movement with a two century old religious philosophical system. Considered to be the most dynamic force in Jewish life today, the organization consists of over 3,500 institutions worldwide directed by over 4,000 full-time emissaries and a workforce that numbers in the tens of thousands.

Dedicated to the spiritual and material welfare of the Jewish people and motivated by respect and affection for each individual, the movement has set into motion an astounding array of innovative programs, services and institutions to serve the needs of Jews and the broader community everywhere. More information on Chabad is available at www.Chabad.org.

The annual ‘Roving Rabbis’ student visitation program is a project of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, the movement’s educational arm. More information on the ‘Roving Rabbis’ is available at www.RovingRabbis.org.