On Tuesday, the 27th of Iyar, Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Kotlarsky z”l embarked on his final journey among thousands of journeys.
As the vice-chairman of Merkos L’lnyonei Chinuch, Rabbi Kotlarsky oversaw the operations of some 5,000 Chabad centers worldwide. In a single week, he could be in San Diego, Krakow, London, and Philadelphia, traveling wherever he was needed — which was wherever a Jewish soul was present.
Rabbi Kotlarsky was also the director of the International Conference of Chabad-Lubavitch Emissaries, otherwise known as the “shluchim conference” or “shluchos conference” respectively.
There he’d stand, before thousands of shluchim, delivering impassioned remarks with the confidence and energy that propelled him to accomplish all that he did. He would then take “roll call,” paying tribute to shluchim in each location, identifying them by the country or state in which they were stationed.
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