During Rosh Hashanah the Lubavitch Youth Organization sent Hasidim to visit hospitals and nursing homes within walking distance–some as for as two hours each way to sound the shofar to some 2000 people, it was reported by Rabbi Shmuel M.Butman, the youth organization’s director. At the Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn, two Hasidim were sent to sound the shofar for one Jewish patient. Instead of one, however, they found 25 Jewish patients there, Butman said. They youth organization also sent a team to Allenwood, Pa., to conduct services and sound the shofar in the jail. The actions were in response to a call by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, that “no Jew should remain without an opportunity to listen to the sound of the shofar.”
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