Coming to the annual Kinus gathering of thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, who travel to New York City from some 110 countries, is “when the lone trees come back to the forest,” according to Rabbi Zvi Drizin, director of the Chabad at Southern Methodist University, in Dallas.
Drizin talked to JNS on Friday at the Ohel, the burial place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, known as the Lubavitcher Rebbe. He was one of 6,500 emissaries, or shluchim, who came that day to the site in Queens, where people greeted each other with “Mazal tov,” embraced and wished each other a forthcoming “Shabbat shalom.”…