Even after twenty meters of snow fell, Moishi Levkovsky, a Chabad youth, braved the elements while walking to the local mikvah, a one and a half kilometer long walk. At the same time as walking to the synagogue on Shabbat
Heavy snow fell in Buffalo New York last Tuesday after a historic and brutal winter storm blanketed the area with snow, the storm left dozens of people freezing to death. The blizzard became the deadliest storm in the Buffalo area in more than four decades.
In recent days there have been widespread power outages and a road ban enforced by the military police, twenty feet of snow has fallen in Buffalo, and so all over Western New York.
Even after it snowed at a high altitude last Sunday, 20-year-old Moishi Levkovsky, the son of Chabad emissaries, Rabbi Leizer and Hani Levkovsky from the local Chabad house, was seen crossing the area on foot to the local mikvah, about a kilometer and a half, a long and difficult walk In the heavy snow, the website COLlive reported.
His brother recorded the walk in the snow using a drone. Moishi and his brother also walked to the mikvah and synagogue last Saturday during the storm. One of the surfers wrote in response: “For a second I thought I read that the mikveh is in the snow, like a mikveh in a freezer, I thought wow like in Russia.”