People are drawn to Rabbi Dovid Harlig and Rabbi Laibel Hanoka.
The two Rabbis are in Australia at the moment as members of an organisation that provides to the spiritual, emotional and material needs of Jewish people living away from Jewish centres.
While they were parked in Nowra recently a man crossed the street and made contact with the Rabbis.
His spiritual contact was limited and was drawn to the van. He asked the Rabbis – are you going to help me?
The Rabbis were only too happy to give the man the help he sought, which is what the Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia is all about.
Rabbi Laibel and Rabbi Dovid volunteered to leave their base two hours outside Los Angeles, California to do some work for the Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia.
They recently picked the van up from Melbourne and headed up the coast and stopped in Nowra.
Rabbi Dovid said they basically they drove through a bunch of cities up the coast visiting Jewish communities.
“Once you go out of the big cities there is not as much infrastructure – most places do not have a synagogue because there’s less of a Jewish population,” Rabbi Dovid said.
Rabbi Laibel added they try to find and make contact with Jewish people as they travel around.
Some people have been visited in the past and want to make contact again and the Rabbis also make use of social media to find other Jewish people.
Read the article in the South Coast Register.