Six months ago, his Chabad house burned down. You won't believe what's happened since then.

June Green
June 15, 2022   
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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Weinfeld, Chabad emissary in San Jose, California, signed a contract earlier this week to purchase a huge building for the Chabad House, at a cost of approximately five million dollars.. It's worth eating healthy: healthy recipes for snacks and family meals These are the changes to the intercity public transportation routes in Jerusalem • All the details The contract signing event was exciting for everyone who was exposed to its details: Last Tevet, the previous Chabad house, which was located not far from the new building, burned down.. The fire broke out at night. The firefighters who arrived at the scene were able to extinguish the fire, but were unable to save the building, which was almost completely burned. ""One of our community members," Rabbi Weinfeld said in a recent interview with writer Mandy Cortes in the weekly 'Kfar Chabad,' "heard from a passerby that 'the synagogue was burning down' and ran to the scene in order to save the Torah scrolls.". "When I heard about the fire, it was already early in the morning. I quickly arrived at the scene. There was nothing to save. Mostly sooty books. Most of what was there was completely burned.". Rabbi Weinfeld operated in the Chabad house that burned down for only three and a half months. He moved there with members of his congregation shortly before Rosh Hashanah. Until then, since coming to the city about two and a half years ago, he operated in a significantly smaller building. ""We invested a lot of money in this Chabad house," said Rabbi Weinfeld. "It was renovated and koshered to accommodate all members of the community. In the end, we only used it for a few months."". The fire completely changed the city's activities. "The beginning was not easy," recalls Rabbi Weinfeld. "We were left with virtually no permanent place. But we were optimistic. We were sure that from here we would only rise. We knew that we were the Rebbe's emissaries. We did not act on our own strength. And indeed, we began to feel the Rebbe's blessings from then on, in a way that was completely unimaginable. Everything changed."". This week, as mentioned, Rabbi Weinfeld signed a contract to purchase a huge building for the Chabad House. This is a building three times larger than the previous one, luxurious, and located on the city's main street, costing almost five million dollars. ""Without the fire, it would have been impossible for us to reach such a building in such a short time on shlichut," says Rabbi Weinfeld. "We are new shlichut, and we feel like we are like players on a board. Someone from above is directing us.". "After the fire, we began to feel the community coming together around us. Thousands of residents of the city came to support us and strengthen us and raised donations. The community, in addition to all this, came together in a way that I don't know if it would have happened without the aspiration. Our activity has since doubled in every sense.".
Rabbi Weinfeld mentions Rabbi Aharon Meir Konin, the chief emissary in the city of San Jose, who has stood by his side in recent months, recruiting supporters and obtaining alternative buildings for activities. "In recent months, we have done some of our activities in his Chabad house," says Rabbi Weinfeld. In the city of San Jose, the third largest in California, whose population is estimated at one million three hundred thousand people - of whom about sixty thousand are Jews - there are three Chabad houses operating. Now the third and newest of them will be upgraded dozens of times.
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