Erev Yom Kippur at the Ohel by Getty Images

Hasidic Jewish men laugh while performing a ritual whipping before sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

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A Hasidic Jewish man prays at sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men pray at sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men pray at sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men pray at sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men pray at sunset outside the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men prepare to pray at sunset at the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men prepare to pray at sunset at the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men prepare to pray at sunset at the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Hasidic Jewish men prepare to pray at sunset at the grave of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the seventh grand rebbe of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic movement, to mark the start of Yom Kippur October 1, 2006 in Cambria Heights, New York. Yom Kippur, the Jewish New Year, is considered the holiest day of the year and hundreds of men are visiting the holy pilgrimage site to mark the holiday. Married men wear white on the holiday to symbolize angelic presence. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

14 Comments

  • embarassing

    how embarassing to have a public display of chabad chasidim laughing during a serious ritual like malkos.

  • yudiyudi

    to embarassing: if you will know Yudi – the person from the picture – you will know that he is mekayem ‘ivdu es hasem besimcha" all the time!!! even when he gets malkos!!!

  • To embarassing:

    In honor of the serious ritual and in the spirit of "The day of Forgiveness":
    Imagine you were getting ready to do this most serious ritual. You’ve managed to get your friend or brother to give you malkus. You bend down and begin saying "V’hu Rachum…" Then you look up and what do you see? A photog with a camera in your face shooting away trying to get that perfect shot.
    However serious you may be, that is humorous.

  • un embarassed

    to embarassing did anyone ever tell you that your mest up
    mabye the are smiling like it says when adar comes you should double your happness so same with tishrie

  • Hi chesky

    howevere, in the second picture the bochur is very "yom kipurdik", so maybe you should complimant him…
    :)

  • Only in Lubavitch

    Always looking to put someone down… only in Lubavitch…
    These bochurim are the pride and joy of our community – it is obvious in every single picture that they take yiddishkeit and chassidishkeit seriously, these are chassidim that the Rebbe is proud of.

  • To embarassing:

    Oh gosh, are you a Lubavitcher? do you not know that Yom Kippur is not a sad day but rather a day where we connect to Hashem, there is no reason not to smile the entire Yom Kippur , you should be ashamed of yourself for posting such a comment and next time think before you write something against someone else.

  • GET OVER YOURSELF

    Yom k’Purim

    and he shouldn’t have to be mekabel any yesurim (EVEN if it’s b’ahavo!)