DETROIT—Levi Eber, a yeshivah dorm counselor in Scottsdale, came in from Arizona to help deliver matzah. He spent the week driving around Traverse City, Michigan, and surrounding areas to deliver shmurah matzah and talk about Passover with residents.
He’s one of more than approximately 300 volunteers joining 30 Chabad centers directed by 50 Chabad couples to take part in a Chabad-Lubavitch of Michigan campaign to send matzah out across communities statewide. In all, approximately 16,600 households received matzah before the start of Passover.
“In 1954, the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, launched a campaign to give handmade shmurah matzah out around the United States”, says Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov, executive director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Michigan. “Matzah is called the ‘bread of faith’. It is also called ‘bread of healing’. The Rebbe taught that the tradition of having handmade matzah that’s made especially for the Mitzvah is very important”.
Marilyn Yarbrough heard about the campaign online and delivered to 40 homes in Royal Oak. Another volunteer delivered matzah to 200 homes across Metro Detroit, when she could have been relaxing at home.
Bari Beckett of Waterford says she was glad to receive the matzah gift from one of the volunteers, and that it will enhance her holiday. “It was just lovely,” she says. “I don’t go out much, so this was a real treat.”
Excerpts from an article which was published in collaboration with the Detroit Jewish News.
