Georgian Prime Minister Vladimir “Lado” Gurgenidze called the office of Rabbi Shimon Brook, head of the Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel, requesting that he ask Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman to pray for Georgia on Tuesday morning.
According to a report in Ynet, the Georgian premier said, “I hear he is a holy man, and I ask that he pray for our country,” remembering that Rabbi Brook had brought a letter from Rabbi Shteinman blessing the nation last year as a “kingdom of grace.”
Rabbi Shteinman is considered a top leader in the hareidi religious world. The Vaad carries out programs in the countries of the former Soviet Union to renew Jewish life and education Jews in the heritage of their ancestors.