BD”E: Petirah Of Rabbi Avrohom Korf Z”L, Pioneering Head Chabad Shliach In Florida

BD”E: Petirah Of Rabbi Avrohom Korf Z”L, Pioneering Head Chabad Shliach In Florida

YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Avrohom Korf, the pioneering Head Shliach of Chabad in Florida and a pillar of Jewish life in the state for more than six decades. He was 92. Born in 5693 (1932) in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Rabbi Korf fled with his family to Samarkand during World War II, eventually escaping the Soviet Union in 1947 alongside Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, the Rebbe’s mother. After a brief stay in the Poking refugee camp an…

BDE: Rabbi Avrohom Korf, 92, OBM

With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Avrohom Korf OBM, the Head Shliach of Florida and the founder of a large Lubavitch network. He passed away on Monday, the 12th of Tammuz, 5785.

Rabbi Avrohom Korf, 92, AH

Rabbi Avrohom Korf, who was sent by the Rebbe as a bochur to Eretz Yisroel, and then as head shliach to Florida, where he built a Lubavitch empire of over 400 shluchim, passed away on Monday night, Yud Beis Tammuz.

Rabbi Avrohom Korf, 92, OBM

Rabbi Avrohom Korf, who escaped Communist Russia as a child and served as Head Shliach of Florida, making it the U.S. state with the most Shluchim and Chabad institutions, passed away on Monday night, 12 Tammuz, 5785. Full Story