The heavy snowfall in and around Jerusalem midweek caused the Association of the Descendants of the Alter Rebbe and Chabad-Lubavitch of Chevron to push back their traditional pilgrimage to the Chevron resting place of Rebbetzin Menuchah Rachel Slonim, daughter of the Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dov Ber, and granddaughter of the Alter Rebbe, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, respectively the second and first Chabad Rebbes.

Organizers rescheduled the gathering for next Tuesday; nevertheless, a handful of Lubavitch Chasidim traveled by jeep to the gravesite on Thursday, the date of the Rebbetzin’s passing in 1888. ...