"We’re going to stay strong and connected to Hashem. This is a nisayon, but we will do this”
The saga began 12 years prior to Rabbi Rubashkin’s arrest following a massive immigration department raid on the family’s meat processing plant, Agriprocessors. When Roza Hindy, the oldest of the ten Rubashkin children, was just bas mitzvah, her family moved to the Midwest to join the family business.
“That first year,” Roza Hindy recalls, “our community wasn’t just small, but tiny. My brothers and I were the only students in our new school, and were joined by a handful of friends a few months in. Five years later, I graduated 12th grade with four other classmates.
“Yet I had an incredibly healthy and wholesome childhood. Every Yom Tov was an opportunity to celebrate life and spread sparks of Yiddishkeit within our modern-day shtetl. On Purim, everyone got a package, and Simchas Torah was filled with pure excitement and joy.
“Financially, my parents were people of means, but gashmiyus wasn’t the agenda, only serving Hashem and His Torah. Our parents taught us that Hashem has empowered us to make this world His home, that each of us had a specific mission in this world that no one else could do.
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