February 12 in Israel will be a wedding that will become one of the most significant in the Jewish community. Rivka Lazar, the daughter of the main rabbi of Russia Berla Lazar, marries Sholoma Wolf, the son of the rabbi of Odessa and the south of Ukraine Abraham Wolf, Rossmi reports with reference to their sources.

According to journalists, the wedding ceremony will take place " The choice of venue is due to the desire to note the birth of a new family with Jewish traditions.

For the first time, preparations for the wedding became known back in December of the last goal, when they told about this in the Moscow Jewish Commun Center (Meotz).

Berl Lazar (the full name of Shlomo Dov-Berta Pinhos Lazar), the father of the bride, is a representative of Lyubavic Hasidism. He was born in Milan, is a citizen of the United States and the Russian Federation. He is married to Hannah Deren, the daughter of Ezekiel Deren, a rabbi from Pittsburgh. In addition to the rack, he has 12 more children: five sons and seven daughters. He was elected the main rabbi of the Federation of Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) in 1999, and a year later he became the main rabbi of Russia after voting at the congress of Russian Jewish communities.

Three of his sons-Yehezkel, Menachem Mendl and Shole-are the main rabbis of Simferopol, Krasnodar and Sochi, respectively.

When a full -scale invasion of the RF Armed Forces began to Ukraine, Lazar refrained from public condemnation or support of the parties, saying only that the world needs to restore the world.

Abraham Wolf, the chief rabbi of Odessa and the south of Ukraine since 1998, was born in Israel, in the city of Kiryat-Malahi. He studied at Yeshiva Jerusalem, Migdal Ha-Emek and New York, served in the Israeli Defense Army.

From 1992 to 1998, Wolf led the Jewish community of Kherson, and is now the head of the Odessa religious community " He is also the founder of the Khabad-Odessa educational complex, which includes kindergartens, primary, secondary and high school, boarding school. On his initiative, a South Ukrainian Jewish University was created, which he is also included in the board of trusteeship. He raises eight children. Wolf has Israeli citizenship, but after the war he wants to apply for a Ukrainian passport.

Focus previously wrote that the son of the main rabbi of Ukraine died at the front.