On Wednesday, May 30, the 10 finalists from the New York Stock Exchange Big Start-Up competition visited the New York Stock Exchange to ring the Closing Bell. Representing New York among the finalists was Lubavitcher entrepreneur Zalmy Duchman, founder of the Fresh Diet.
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On Wednesday, May 30, the 10 finalists from the New York Stock Exchange Big Start-Up competition visited the New York Stock Exchange to ring the Closing Bell. Representing New York among the finalists was Lubavitcher entrepreneur Zalmy Duchman, founder of the Fresh Diet.
chinuch problem
why do Chabad men who taste success in the business world, need to deal with their insecurities by dressing like flamingos?
you made a kiddush hashem by being a frum successful lubavitcher, now take it to the next level and dress with some Tznius. Same with your wives, try setting an example. Speak and dress with dignity.
Hatzlacha rabba
CHT
Why you did not tell before, I could have come by and cheer
BECHIRO CHOFSHI
I guess he can dress as ridiculously as he wants and make a fool of himself if he wishes, just dont call him “chabad”
to #1
I wore Yechi yarmulke when it was my minute of fame in that balcony.
BTW
HUGE MAZEL TOV AND HATZLOCHA RABBA
To #1 and #3.
Good to see you people are focused on the important things, like his jacket color. That comment could have only come from someone who lives in Crown Heights/Montreal where the small minded ghetto mentality prevails. Grow up. Go focus on the kids running around the streets doing drugs and doing nothing constructive. Or maybe focus on the Rabbi’s in their kapota’s who have recently been featured on other websites doing the most abhorrent things on camera. Good they were wearing their kapota’s and yarmulkes and long beards right? If Zalmi Duchman were the poster boy for Chabad I’d be a lot happier to identify with it than with the garbage you put on a pedestal.
To # 4
I rather a lubab wear a pink everything, then a yechi yarmulka is a bigger chillul chabad !!
Get a new perspective.
Reading the comments left on this page is so dishearteningly sad. Here you have a wonderful individual setting an amazing example for our youth and you choose to denigrate his accomplishments by criticizing his clothing. How sad. How pathetic. Thank g-d for people like Zalmi. He’s actually out there making a kiddush hashem and bringing moshiach closer while you sit and write hateful posts. Yasher koach. GO ZALMI
No Showman
He has a full beard. No difference between him dressing like that to be noticed and get publicity than Lipa, who fools with his beard, wearing weird clothing.
At the end of the day, business is a show too, and Fresh Diet’s customers want to be associated with someone trendy. If he dresses that way to shul, it’s the rabbi’s decision what to do. However, considering what many Lubavitchers in business look like, there is nothing wrong with using a promotional opportunity to promote yourself by looking out of the ordinary.
Mendel
Apparently he is a very successful guy. Kol hakovod to him and Hashem should keep on sending him parnassa, briyut and yiddishe nachas.
Nothing is wrong with his dress. This is how Lubavitchers dress now days. If you want to live and dress how they used to back in the shtettel, move to Williamsburg. Lubavitch is “living with the times.”
Admirer
When u have gelt u can dress anyway u want
M2
Why do all the righteous people hide behind this public forum in annonomous attack on fellow Yidden. Isn’t the true definition of ‘tznius’ to be humble and righteous!? The Torah makes no mention of the requirement to wear specific colors. This week we read the Aseres Hadibros. We brought our entire families to hear. Even our little ones. The Ten Commandments were engraved on two tablets. The five commandments etched on the first tablet deal with man’s relationship with G-d; the second tablet contains five commandments which concern man’s relationship with his fellow man.
We must first learn the true definition of tznius as described in the Torah. Love your fellow man!
“V’ahavta l’rayacha kamocha, ani Hashem {You shall love your neighbor as yourself, I am Hashem}.” The extent of this commandment is illustrated throughout Torah and Halacha and is a fundamental precept of Judaism. As children we were all schooled in this principal law as is illustrated by the famous story in the Talmud [Shabbos 31A]. A gentile approached Shammai and said to him: “Convert me but teach me the entire Torah as I stand on one foot.” Shammai, feeling that he wasn’t serious, chased him away. This gentile then approached Hillel with the same offer/request but was met with a very different reaction–Hillel agreed. The entire Torah on one foot that Hillel taught him was “that which you hate, don’t do to others–a paraphrase of the command to love your neighbor. ”That is the entire Torah,“ Hillel told him, ”the rest is simply an explanation. Go and learn it!”
How incredible that so many forget the principal laws and elect themselves to preach to others how they should act and what they should do.
I know Zalmy and he is a good Jew in the true sense. He is a man full of Chessed and Ahava! Quick to do a favor, fast to help a fellow Yid. Trust me, he would never criticize someone’s wrong doing in a public forum. He has used his talents to establish a successful business, employee many fellow community members and support their families with true dignity. He is a ball tzedakah and an example of a good human being. His definition of ‘modesty’ goes way beyond his elbows and the skirt line of his knees. His body is engulfed and saturated with humility and righteousness!
And while we can all improve our inner selves, it is embarrassing and repulsive to see the juvenile and self-righteous negativity in these forums.
May we all merit to be better people and learn from the good that each and every Yid does to make this material world a better place and speed the Ultimate Redemption speedily in our days!
@ #1#2
what is wrong with the way this man is dressed and how is he not Chabad. could someone please explain im new to this and find it distasteful to say such harsh words.
Proud in Pink
I think you might be jealous that you can’t pull off the pink as well as he does. It takes a real man to wear pink.
Nobody
I think the definition of Chabad needs a bit more work than a community identity defined by where you were born or with whom you hang out.
Chabad exists as a philosophy in Avodas Hashem. Being part of it has to say something about your relationship to that philosophy. Unfortunately, it no longer necessarily does in the minds of a lot of people.
chinuch problem
please accept my apology, this was not to be personal. I am sure he is a good guy and makes a kiddush hashem. I was using the opportunity to make a larger point. we have the opportunity to get out into the world and most times we make a huge impact. lets use that gift, blessing and talent to inspire others. the world is thirsty for truth, Chabad has the right approach and successful people have access to more people that some shluchim. lets stop trying to fit in to society by dressing and talking like them. Look at Israel always trying to get accepted by the rest of the world at the expense of losing their Jewish identity. I want to see more successful Chabadniks with full beards not compromising but inspiring.
Thank G-D my measure for success is if I can pull off wearing pink.
Goot shabbos
CHer
He’s supporting breast cancer.
cool!
i personally think that hes wearing the coolest jacket in the world!
ya akov
REMEMBER the Alter Rebbe warned us to stay out of the goy markets….. stay in farming and timber….Mazel Tov to his success though.