The Jewish Community of Hong Kong was overwhelmed
with joy as they were blessed with a new baby boy member. Hong Kong is well
known as a business center frequented by business men from around the world.
The Chabad Shaliach Rabbi Mordechai Avtzon was successful in establishing a
flourishing Jewish Community in addition to providing a Jewish environment to
the many Jewish visitors.
On the 9th day of Kislev Moshe and Miriam Kamkin
Chabad members of the Hong Kong Jewish Community were blessed with their third
son. Moshe Kamkin said that “in Hong Kong there is no Mohel for us to use. We
need to import a Mohel to do the Bris for our new son. Israel, Australia,
England, and Canada were some options for us to consider. However I was looking
for a Mohel, that in addition to the skill of doing a good Bris, can inspire
the participant’s members of our community”.
Rabbi Levi Heber, a
Crown Heights Mohel, and a friend to the of the Kamkin family accepted the
challenge of flying 21 hours each way for a 7 hour stay over in Hong Kong.
Rabbi Heber said that he
was encouraged by his Grandfather Rabbi Yisroel Tzvi HaLevi Heber OBM to become
a Mohel. “My Grandfather was a Mohel and a Shochet. He was sent by the Rebbe to
Romania as a Shaliach to assist the Jewish community there. With much devotion
and self sacrifice he has performed many Brisim in distant parts of that
country. My Grandfather passed away while I was on my way to Hong Kong, I was
only notified of this upon my return, two days later. He was a true Chassid and
a role model of someone that will endure self sacrifice just to help others”.
The Bris was held in The
Jewish Community Center is in the heart of the Jewish community in Hong Kong.
In significance to the baby boy’s birthday, he was given the name DovBer. May
we see much Nachas from him and may he inspire his surroundings as has the
Mitteler Rabbe, Rabbi DovBer Schneersohn, the one he was named after.
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