Biography
Amid Heavy Snow, Toronto Honors Late Rov with New Torah
Despite heavy snowfall, the Toronto community gathered to complete a new sefer Torah written in memory of longtime rov, Harav Dovid Schochet A”H. The event was held on his first yahrtzeit, Monday, 18 Shvat, 5785.
Shortly after their wedding, Harav Schochet and his wife moved to Toronto to serve as the Rebbe’s shluchim. More than two decades later and after having presided over a boom in the entire city’s Jewish community, the Schochets packed their bags and moved north to the relatively undeveloped area of Thornhill. They established the Chabad-Lubavitch Community Center there and spearheaded a mass migration north.
Over the next decades, Harav Schochet served in Toronto as rov and mara d’asra of the Chabad community, as well as a posek for the wider Toronto community. The Toronto community showed up en masse to the siyum to participate in writing the final letters. They then danced joyously through the snowy streets to the shul at Chabad Gate where Harav Schochet led the community in recent decades.
