Picture of the Night! Preparing Flowers at 3:30am
One of the customs of Shavuot is to adorn the home with flowers and greens, our Sages relate that although Mount Sinai was situated in a desert, when the Torah was given the mountain bloomed and sprouted flowers and since it is the Harvest Festival.
In the picture, a flower merchant is preparing hundreds of bouquets of flowers in order to meet todays demand.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Deprived of flowers
Wow so many flowers its so baeutiful!!
I feel like im in the desert in new york!
Reforms
I think these holiday business people take away business from the hardworking all year round retail stores
Kop Docktar
They have no overhead – no store, no utility bills, (and no taxes).
Basically, they are pirates, who swoop in from other places, encroaching on the territory of established shchuna flower shops, and robbing us of parnasa.
Think of YOUR business, and imagine someone selling the same merchandize from a folding table on the street.
Imagine if they are selling for example baked goods, groceries, clothing, prepared foods, hardware, toys…
Kop Docktar2
Article states: “One of the customs of Shavuot”. Question: Is this a Chabad minhag? If so, where is it recorded? (I don’t think they had flowers in Stalinist/Communist Russia – but I may be wrong).
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um exacly why are those ppl up at 3:00 am?even so why wera you up at 3:30am!?!?!?!?!?!
ch consumer
stealing business?!?!???
The crown heights florist, now we have two, but it doesn’t help much. Both are hightly overpriced $3.00 for 1 tulip!
in Manhatten you can get 10 for $5.00.
The quality of the ones on the street sadly at times surpass the ones in the store. If you want customers cater to them.
An out of towner
Beautiful flowers.
I don’t think these flowers will take away parnosso from the “regular” florists. Most people who have a “regular” florist, will go to him on erev yomtov too. But with all the out of towners coming to CH for yomtov, there’s definitely room for additional florists on this one day. We live out of town, and many local yeshivos and mosdos sell flowers as a fund-raiser on erev Shavuos. This does not put the “regular” florists out of business.
Hatzlacha to all…and good Shabbos!