Rabbi Aron Litwin
Psychotherapist and Founder of Mekimi in England

Seventeen-year-old Aron Litwin was sitting and learning in a shul in Manchester one morning. He remembers thinking it was odd when a friend who wasn’t usually around then walked in. But when his rebbi walked in soon after, he knew something was wrong. The only thing the rebbi told him was that his father had collapsed and was very sick. He was needed at home immediately. When Aron finally reached his mother, she told him that his father had passed away, and the levayah would be that afternoon. Now young Aron had to learn how to live a life without his father – a father with whom he had been very close.

All this took place years ago, but talking about his father still brings tears to the now-grown Rabbi Litwin’s eyes. Yet those tears have not gone to waste; as co-founder of Mekimi, a London-base dorganization that offers care and support to young orphans, he is taking his painful experiences and using them to benefit others. And he is also accomplishing great things in his role of husband, father and therapist, passing down the mesorah he received from his beloved father, a”h, and his mother, tb”l’ch.

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