Chabad bochurim Yisroel Andrusier from Florida and Zalmy Gurary from Montreal, students of Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch in the Brunoy village in France, were helping Jews put on Tefillin in the Jewish quarter in Paris, known as the Pletzl.
Collive reported on a moving encounter they had with a special Jew, Raphael Benguigui, and his wife Lorena, residents of Paris and Lisbon, Portugal.
Raphael, who doesn’t have hands, agreed to put on Tefillin.
Lorena told the bochurim later that Raphael used to daven with tefillin on a regular basis but stopped when he was diagnosed with leukemia and later suffered from septic shock.
“My husband needed this,” she said, explaining that “after what we call ‘the life accident,’ he didn’t do it every day anymore. He had some anger to deal with. Raphael said that from today he will do it every day.”
Watch the moving video below:
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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5 Responses
This guy is a Sfardi, Sfardim make one bracha when they put on tefillin, להניח תפילין. Why is this Chabadsker having him go against his minhag? Is he trying to convert him to Chabadianity?
The main thing is that he got his video for PR for himself and his sect.
@Lemayseh – The bigger chiddush is that Minhag CHaBa”D is ALSO NOT to say the second berachah (like the RaMBa”M, The GR”A, and many others).
@Lemayseh – I feel very attacked that you need to find a problom right away. But according to the Shulchan Aruch harav (and many others) someone that does not have a hand should not make a Berachah on the Teffilin Shel Yad.
He didn’t make a bracha on the shel yad, so that explains why he only made one bracha on the shel rosh and not 2, like Rabenu Tam.
@shauly not only that but sfardim actually make two brochos!!
And I believe that chabad only makes 1 brocha Unless you make a hefsek so I Don’t know how YWN let comments!!