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Gov. John Engler
sits next to Rabbi
Chaskel Grubner at
Sunday's ceremony.
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Igniting A Spark
The Sara Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center,
which celebrated its expansion this week, is a
magnet for Jews of all stripes.
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Special to The Jewish News
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NEW YEAR!
decade ago, as Josh
Shanker prepared for his
bar mitzvah at Temple
Israel, his father Mickey
wanted him to lay tefillirl. The prac-
tice is not common in Reform tem-
ples, but Josh met a Lubavitch rabbi
who said he would teach him how.
A spark became a fire. "My hus-
band bought two pair of tefillin that
day, one for my son and one for
himself, and from that day on started
to lay tefillin every morning," said
Myrna Shanker.
Inspired by Rabbi Elimelech
Silberberg, Mickey and Myrna
attended Shabbat services at Sara
Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center
that the rabbi founded 25 years ago.
"I didn't feel a tremendous lacking
at Temple Israel," Mrs. Shanker
admitted. "I had grown up there,
liked the rabbis there very much, still
do. [At] Chabad, my husband was
on one side of the mechitzah (the
divider that separates the genders in
a sanctuary) and I on the other. It
was disconcerting at first, but after
one Shabbos, there came another,
and another, and I saw the beauty of
a traditional Orthodox service, of
engaging oneself in a very intimate
practice of Judaism, in a small con-
gregation, with a very intense focus."
The Shankers became so attached
to the Bais Chabad that they donat-
ed funds for a 15-by-30-foot library
— one facet of the additions that
were celebrated Sunday at a dedica-
tion ceremony at the Maple Road
shul in West Bloomfield. -
At the ceremonies Gov. John
Engler noted the Torah Center's role
as a house of education that con-
tributes to the state's efforts to create
top-notch schools. "Education is so
prized," he said, "that knowledge is a
defining difference."
In an interview, Rabbi Silberberg
recalled that when he came to
Michigan from Brooklyn in 1975,
there were few, if any, observant Jews
in West Bloomfield.
But he was guided by the Chabad
or Lubavitch philosophy, which
includes a willingness to live among
people at different levels of ob .ser-
vance and to share your religious
commitment with others in a non-
threatening way. "Frum Jews should
be able to see that you are able to
live as frum Jews in an assimilated
neighborhood," said Silberberg.
Progress has been slow but steady.
The mikvah was developed in 1983,
and the shul's daily minyan started a
decade ago; then came the
Mincha/Maariv minyan. No more
than 15 people attended the first