There has never been one like this: A double circumcision ceremony for babies was recently held in Akron, Ohio. While that is unique in itself, what made this celebration especially special was that the babies were cousins, born on the same day to two brothers, directors of Chabad houses in the same area, who are married to two sisters.
The Chabad Oreg website brought their amazing story.
Rabbi Moshe Shashonkin, the father of one of the boys and director of the Chabad house in the city of Akron, says that the entire framework of the covenant and the births was amazing.
He and his brother, Rabbi Berel Shashonkin, who runs the Chabad house in Kent State, a city located about a half-hour drive from Akron, knew that the expected birth dates of the two babies were quite close. But when his sister-in-law's baby, Rachel, was born at 2 a.m. on the 2nd of Sivan, they were already stressed.
"Then at two in the afternoon, we were blessed with our baby," says Rabbi Moshe about himself and his wife - Musi.
About 150 people gathered for the special ceremony held at the synagogue in Akron, which was led by the father of the family - Rabbi Mendy Shashonkin, the late, until his passing at the age of 54 in 2018, when his son Rabbi Moshe succeeded him.
And was their name called in Israel?
Rabbi In the spring of Shashonkin and his wife Rachel They called their son Menachem Mendel In the name of the Rebbe, may God bless him and his family, and in the name of the late grandfather. The Rabbi Moshe Shashonkin and his wife Musi They named their son after the Rebbe's brother - Israel Aryeh Leib.
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