Living Torah Archives

Rabbi Henry Isaacs served as rabbi on Bangor, Maine, for close to forty years. In 1958, he was a rabbinical student at Yeshiva University, and was engaged to be married. He had plans to enter the Armed Forces and join the Air Force. His father wouldn’t agree and unsure how to proceed, he turned to the Rebbe. The Rebbe’s advice on that night was more far-reaching than he could have ever imagined at the time.

After meeting with the Rebbe in 1950, Private Bernard Cytryn shipped off to the Korean warfront with his US Battalion. From there, he continued to correspond with the Rebbe.

Mr. Bernard Cytryn arrived in the United States in 1946. Having been liberated from the concentration camps by US soldiers, he wished to repay the kindness, and enlisted in the US Army. Before shipping off to Korea in 1950, he had a private audience with the Rebbe (1950-1951.

A few days before Yom Kippur in 1964, a sudden request came to 770 from a Jew who worked on a US Air force base in Greenland, to send a Shliach there to conduct the Yom Kippur services. Rabbi Shmuel Lew was called to duty.