Businesswoman and social media personality Elin Cohen said she is facing the hardest and most complicated period of her life, months after canceling her wedding to Bar Levi in April, only six weeks before the ceremony was due. Cohen had recently returned from an influencers trip to Las Vegas filled with parties and events, but on Wednesday morning she revealed that on her way back to Israel she stopped in New York to visit the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Cohen described the visit as emotionally charged because the last time she was there, she came as an engaged woman with a wedding invitation in hand. She said that years earlier, when she visited as a single woman, she asked the Rebbe and Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka for a proper relationship and promised to return to thank them. She said she did return, and later came back with the wedding invitation she had promised to bring.
“This time I came without a ring on my finger and as a single woman,” she wrote, adding that she believes everything happens for the good and that she will get through it. She thanked God for the chance to visit again and said she hopes to return soon “with celebrations, salvations and good news.”
Cohen also said the trip highlighted a painful contradiction in her life right now, with work flights, meetings, events and the Las Vegas parties continuing while she is dealing with what she called the most complicated time of her life. She said it is hard to understand how one moment can involve music, alcohol and people, and the next tears and prayers at the Rebbe’s grave, but added that, in her view, God meets people exactly where they are, in confusion, pain and the middle of the journey.
