Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens

Motivated by a profound love for every Jew and spurred by a boundless optimism, Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens sets into motion a dazzling array of programs and services to educate, inspire, and uplift Jews from all walks of life with unconditional love and acceptance.

Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens was founded on April 30, 2006 on the dreams and aspirations of Rabbi Dovid and Rebbetzin Chana Vigler. Without knowing a single soul in the area, they rolled up their sleeves and set themselves to the task of creating a vibrant and dynamic Jewish Community in Palm Beach Gardens that caters to the spiritual, emotional, and social needs of the local Jewish population. Representing the dynamic and vibrant Chabad Lubavitch movement, Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens was opened not only to give people what they're consciously seeking, but also to help them identify what they unconsciously need without even realizing it. By blending the timeless wisdom of the ancient secrets of our faith together with sophisticated and relevant programming, Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens has quickly grown to become a powerful force in the community, one that people find themselves drawn back to for ever more compelling and engaging debate and programming.

Growing in leaps and bounds and pressed for space, the Community moved into their much anticipated, renovated former Firehouse on the South Western corner of PGA Blvd and the Turnpike in the LA Fitness Plaza where they have managed to transform the "Fire House" into a warm, compassionate, and dynamic "House of Fire."

Introducing himself as an African American rabbi, Dovid Vigler blends together the African culture in which he was raised with the esoteric Chassidic pulse of his passion. Inspired by the survival instincts of -the wild, Rabbi Vigler is most comfortable illuminating down-to-earth and easy-to-understand explanations of deep mystical concepts taught in the Kaballah and Chassidic works. Driven by the Rebbe’s message to reach out to every single last Jew, he founded Schmooze Radio in 2009, South Florida’s only Torah Radio Show, "separating fact from fiction and bubbe maasehs from the bottom line." Rabbi Dovid Vigler received his Rabbinical Ordination in Melbourne Australia in 2004. Together with his wife, Chana, they founded and direct the Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens, FL in 2006 where they have created a dynamic, warm and inspired community in one of America's most disaffiliated Jewish Communities in eight short years.

From JewishGardens.com