A Yeshiva in Riga for the Rebbe
Rav Teitz first met the Rebbe Rayatz of Lubavitch in Riga. The Rebbe asked him to set up a Chassidic yeshiva in the city, even though Rav Teitz himself came from the Lithuanian world.
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