Downtown Boston
15 School Street - Second Floor
The Zvhil -
Mezbuz Beis Medrash, located in downtown Boston, is open to the public weekdays
during normal working hours as a place of prayer and study. It houses a basic
library of Talmud, Shulchan Aruch, and other traditional texts and commentaries
and Chasidic works.
Minchah services are held Monday through Thursday at 1:30 PM, and has become
a gathering place for Jews of all walks of life and all segments of the
community.
Special early Minchah services are held on Erev Yom Kippur, and the Hillula (yahrzeit)
of the Rebbe's ancestors, the Rebbes of Mezbuz, Zvhil, Zlotschov, Tschernobl and
Apta are commemorated during the year.
At Succos time each year the Rebbe oversees construction of a succah on Old
City Hall Plaza, a block from the Beis Medrash downtown, for use during the
intermediate days of Succos. Hundreds of Jews from every segment of Boston's
Jewish community take turns using the downtown Boston succah. In addition to
those working downtown, Jews from throughout Greater Boston participate in the
mitzvot of lulav, esrog, and succah and visitors from Monsey, Flatbush and Boro
Park, NY; Chicago and as far away as Jerusalem bring their lunches to eat in the
succah.