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50,000 Visitors at the Rebbe’s Resting Place

General petition for a better world read at the Ohel

Chabad.org StaffJuly 3, 2022 11:47 AM

On Friday afternoon, the “pan klali” (general letter), which was signed by many Chassidim from around the world, was read at the Ohel by Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, left. (Photo: Itzik Roitman)

Over the past week, an estimated 50,000 people from as far as Alaska, Australia, Thailand and Ukraine visited the Ohel in Queens, N.Y., the resting place of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—in honor of the 28th anniversary of his passing on the third day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz (Gimmel Tammuz), which this year corresponded to Shabbat.

On Friday afternoon, the pan klali (general letter), which was signed by many Chassidim from around the world, was read at the Ohel by Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, director of Lubavitch of Philadelphia and chairman of the executive committee of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, the umbrella organization of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.