Originally sent on a short-term shlichus to Melbourne Australia, Reb Yitzchok Dovid Groner returned to New York in 5721 to be with the Rebbe. In a 7 Cheshvan yechidus, the Rebbe encouraged him to return for a permanent Shlichus.
“It can become like Bnei Berak, Williamsburg and Crown Heights,” the Rebbe outlined a fantastic vision for the spiritual desert.
The Rebbe then told Reb Yitzchok to look at the country of Georgia as an example. How it was desolate of Yidishkeit, and what Reb Shmuel Levitin accomplished there as a shliach of the Rebbe Rashab.
“As an American born, without an accent,” the Rebbe continued, “you have the power to influence people to lay tefillin.
“Australia now can be totally conquered!” the Rebbe declared.
Reb Yitzchok returned, and indeed the Australian landscape was transformed.
(Teshura Groner Weingarten 5771)
