Bored on Sunday? Visit the Ohel, Says the NY Times

In an editorial titled Jets? Giants? There Are Better Ways to Spend Your Sunday, The New York Times on Friday offered a short list of recommended activities for New Yorkers looking for a fulfilling way to spend their day off, including such tips as visiting the swamps of New Jersey or enjoying an opera at Carnegie Hall.

But one item on the list stood out: a recommendation to visit the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s gravesite in Queens.

Under the title ‘Make a Pilgrimage,’ the Times editors wrote:

Visit a grave-turned-shrine of a rabbi in Queens.

The Ohel is the final resting place of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, who was the leader of the Lubavitch sect of ultra-Orthodox Judaism.

Schneerson, known as the Rebbe, died in 1994, and in the past two decades his burial site has turned into a place of pilgrimage for Jews, who trek here from around the world to write prayers on scraps of paper and toss them on the Rebbe’s grave — 24 hours a day.

The site, little known outside the Jewish community, is in fact a nondenominational place of prayer, where any visitor is allowed to walk right in and toss a paper prayer into the mix.

Perhaps there you can pray for our two lousy teams.

Click here to read the full article at the New York Times.

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