This is an ongoing project based off of the she’elot v’tshuvot model, whereby the chossid who lives too far away from his rebbe must begin a distance correspondence with him. Through discussions and Jewish Beit Midrash learning in Kishinev, questions posed by Moldovan Jews are collected and rebbes, (rabbis and Jewish thinkers/innovators) are called upon to respond. The t’shuvot are then collected and translated into russian and discussed in a weekly Beit Midrash and at Shabbat dinners.
One hundred years ago, the Jewish population of Kishinev, the capital of Moldova – a small Former Soviet Union country wedged in between Romania and Ukraine, numbered half of the city’s entire population. There were 77 thriving synagogues in a city with a population of 125,000. Imagine!
Every she’elah v’tshuvah dialogue is b’zchut one of the 77 synagogues that used to stand in Kishinev one hundred years ago.
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