[3] He was active in the Rabbinical Center of Europe and was chairman of that organisation's executive committee.
In 1947 his family escaped Russia, first they were in the DP camps in Germany until they finally moved to Israel.
In Israel he learnt in the Chabad Yeshivot there under Rebbi Shlomo Chaim Kesselman.
in that period of time he also helped the Yemenites settle in Israel, with Torah education saving them from the Christian missionaries.
During a visit to New York in 1971 his plane was delayed and walked 10 miles from John F. Kennedy Airport to Crown Heights, Brooklyn to avoid riding in a car on the Shabbat.