{"id":8979,"date":"2018-02-16T11:53:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T16:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishbreakingnews.com\/jbn\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2024-03-13T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T09:36:07","slug":"thousands-tefillin-wearers-give-unique-birthday-gift-rabbi-als","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishbreakingnews.com\/thousands-tefillin-wearers-give-unique-birthday-gift-rabbi-als\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Tefillin Wearers to Give Unique Birthday Gift to Rabbi With ALS"},"content":{"rendered":"
Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz is about to turn 46. As a little boy in Brooklyn, N.Y., he loved dancing, singing and making people laugh. As a\u00a0Chabad-Lubavitch<\/span>\u00a0emissary to Temecula, Calif., he used those gifts to teach and inspire others, as he and his wife,\u00a0Dina<\/span>, built a vibrant and loving community.<\/p>\n According to Dina Hurwitz, one of the most beloved aspects of her husband’s work was putting on\u00a0tefillin<\/span><\/i>\u00a0with men in his community and encouraging them to purchase their own sets so they could do so themselves regularly.<\/p>\n \u201cHe loves his\u00a0tefillin<\/i>, and it was his passion to put them on with other people,\u201d she tells\u00a0Chabad<\/span>.org. \u201cWhen he turned 40, I bought him a new pouch for his\u00a0tefillin<\/i>. It is a\u00a0mitzvah<\/span>\u00a0I know he loves, and if I could make it more beautiful for him, that would be the perfect gift.\u201d<\/p>\n