But in Chabad Hasidism: Rabbi Gershon Mendel Garlick, one of the rabbis of Milan, the chief emissary of Chabad in Italy - and one of the founders of the European Rabbinical Center - passed away in New York on Saturday, at the age of 88.
The late zt"l worked on behalf of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Milan for 61 years, establishing a large empire of institutions throughout Italy.
He was the rabbinical leader of the Ohel Yaakov community in Bilano, and founder of the Milan Rabbinical Kashrut Committee. EK And the head and founder of the Rabbinical Center of Europe, where he served as a member of the presidency and chairman of the executive committee.
The deceased was born in Iyar 1932 to his father, Rabbi Chaim Meir Garlick, and his mother, Mrs. Rivka Leah, may God have mercy on him.
He studied in the underground Chabad yeshivots in communist Russia, and in 1957, the family members left Russia in the great escape of Chabad Hasidim.
They first stayed in Germany, and later immigrated to Israel.
In 1959, with the establishment of the Kfar Chabad settlement, they moved to live there. He studied at the Achi Temimim Yeshiva in Tel Aviv and the Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva in Lod, under the legendary influence of the G.A.H. Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman, zt"l.
At the end of Sivan 5705, he began studying at the Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshiva at the Chabad World Center-770 in Brooklyn, where he was ordained by the great sages Rabbi Yisrael Yitzhak Pikarsky and Rabbi Mordechai Mantelik zt"l.
On Tammuz 5718, he married his wife, Batya, daughter of the emissary Rabbi Shalom Posner from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
In Kislev 5719, the Lubavitcher Rebbe went on a mission to the city of Milan, Italy, where he began serving as rabbi of the Ashkenazi community.
Over the years, Rabbi Garlick established a Chabad community consisting of families who were brought closer to Judaism and Chabad Hasidim through him.
In 1994, he inaugurated the "Beit Menachem" building in Milan in the form of the Chabad World Center - 770, which also serves as the center of activity for the central Chabad House in the city.
During the 1970s, many Jews left the Soviet Union and passed through the city of Naples, and Rabbi Garlick devoted himself to spreading Judaism among the immigrants, building a synagogue, a mikveh, a kosher restaurant, and more.
In 2009, together with other rabbis, he founded the Rabbinical Center of Europe and has since served as a member of the Presidential Committee and Chairman of the Center's Executive Committee.
He left behind three sons and four daughters, and many descendants.
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