Gimmel Tammuz/Yahrzeit Lubavithcer Rebbe zt'l

Jewish Philanthropy Podcast

Topic: Gimmel Tammuz/Yahrzeit Lubavitcher Rebbe zt'l Guest: Rabbi Zalman Wolowik Bio: In September of 1995, Rabbi S. Zalman Wolowik and his wife Chanie arrived in the Five Towns with one goal in mind: to establish a Chabad Center to serve the Five Towns and surrounding communities.

Rabbi Zalman Wolowik was born and raised in Montreal and pursued his post-high school studies in New York and Israel, where he received Rabbinic Ordination. He also received dayanut, the ability to serve in Beit Din (Rabbinic court) from Rabbi Hirschprung, Chief Rabbi of Canada. In 1994, after spending a year in Gorky, Russia, enriching the Jewish community, he married Chanie Kotlarsky who was born and raised in Brooklyn and also spent time in Russia. Born into a prestigious Chabad family, she always knew she would be involved in a Chabad Center, which they found themselves directing just a short year later.

Filled with enthusiasm and inspired by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi and Rebbetzin Wolowik began to assess the needs of the community and to determine how they could make a positive impact on Jewish life in the Five Towns. People wondered and asked what they were doing here and how long they'd stay. "It's a one-way trip we take,” explained Wolowik. “It's a lifetime investment that we do. There's no return."

Rabbi Wolowik is the personal Rabbi of former Ambassador David Friedman and played a spiritual role in the inauguration of the US Embassy in Jerusalem in 2018.

In this wide ranging interview, we cover:

1. Born as a Shaliach

2. Chabad is about Torah

3. The significance of Gimmel Tammuz

4. The Rabbi of the Ambassador

5. Levi Yitzcahk library

6. Finding more time in the Day

7. Continuing to Build and bring Redemption

And so much more!