Living Torah Archives

Moshe Kagan is a consultant living in Jerusalem, Israel. In the early 1960s, he arrived from England to attend yeshiva in 770. He was one of the few Yeshiva students with a driver’s license, and it worked in his favor. He was one of a group of students who got together to launch a new project – a mobile mitzvah vehicle.

There is probably a charity box onboard your Mitzvah Tank. Put this dollar in there. Good tidings and much success. (Collage)

Rabbi Raphael Aron is the director of the Gateway family Counseling Centre in Melbourne, Australia. In 1974, while running the Lubavitch Youth Organization in Melbourne, he had an audience with the Rebbe. At the time, he was looking for a way to deal with the opposition they were receiving for the rambunctious nature of their Mitzvah campaigns. The Rebbe’s response was somewhat surprising, and has remained with him since.

At the conclusion of a weekday Farbrengen, the Rebbe distributes packets of dollars to the “Tankists” – Chassidim who run the Mitzvah Tanks, to give out to the rest of those present.