Episode 3 – Reb Reuven Donin: A Chossid Who Moved Boulders

Reb Reuven Donin was known as “the tractorist of the Rebbe” — a chossid whose strength, directness, and burning ahavas Yisroel became tools in the Rebbe’s shlichus.Before entering Tomchei Temimim, Reb Reuven worked with tractors and heavy machinery. Later, he would use those same kochos to move people — closed hearts, confused bachurim, Yidden who had drifted far, and neshamos waiting to come home.In this episode, we explore Reb Reuven’s search for truth, his first yechidus with the Rebbe, his deep connection to Reb Shlomo Chaim Kesselman, his farbrengens, his bittul, and the question that stood at the center of his life:What does Hashem want from me?What does the Rebbe want from me?For more stories and a fuller biography of Reb Reuven Donin, see the Hebrew book הטרקטוריסט של הרבי.