Photo Gallery: 17th of Tamuz in 770

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A few hours ago the fast of the 17th of Tamuz concluded, and throughout the day 770 was abuzz. The following is a gallery of pictures including the break-fast.

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Photo Gallery: The Peak

QUEENS, NY [CHI] — Midday Gimmel Tamuz, thousands have already passed the Tzion, and the lines are only getting longer, all three large ‘tents’ are packed with no room to move, Minyanim for Shacharis and Mincha go on throughout the day, Shluchim and Bochurim sitting and learning, the spontaneous Farbrengens and the occasional Niggun breaks out from random tables, and the hundreds just sitting and writing their Pan’s.

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Photo Gallery: A Unique Perspective at the Ohel

Motzoai Shabbos, the lines begin to draw long spilling out into the street, Shluchim meet old friends, Bochurim sitting and learning with Shluchim. These were some of the sights at the Ohel on Motzoai Shabbos, the following is a gallery of picture from a unique perspective.

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4000 at Ohel on Shabbos!

Over 4000 people spent Shabbos at the Ohel and Farbrengens were held in every corner. Shluchim, Rabbonim, Temimim and Anash from all over the world came to be in the Daled Amos of the Rebbe on Shabbos ushering in Gimmel Tamuz.

Everything worked out accordingly, the arrangement of sleeping quarters, the Seudos Shabbos, all went about smoothly thanks to the diligent efforts of the staff at the Ohel headed by Rabbi Abba Refson.

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Photo Gallery: Erev Shabbos at the Ohel

Thousands of chassidim and Temimim from all over the world spent Shabbos at the Ohel preparing for Gimmel Tamuz. The site was packed with Temimim, chassidim, shluchim and rabbis from all over the world who came o be in the Daled Amos of the Rebbe on Gimmel Tamuz.

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Photo Gallery: The Quiet Before the ‘Storm’

LAURELTON, Queens [CHI] — The thousands of guests that have arrived in Crown Heights for Gimmel Tamuz are taking advantage of the “quiet before the storm” and are visiting the Ohel before Sunday when there are fewer people than the masses that will be arriving on Sunday.

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Photo Gallery: Preparations at the Ohel

Some of the massive generators brought in to power the air conditioning units.

LAURELTON, Queens [CHI] — The preparations at the Ohel are at the peak, after weeks of planning by the management of ‘Ohel Chabad Lubavitch’ led by Rabbi Abba Refson, to greet the tens of thousands that will come to the Tziyon of the Rebbe on Gimmel Tammuz.

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14 Years since Gimmel Tammuz: The Pictures

Pictures of the Rebbes Levaya on Gimmel Tammuz 5754: the pain, the sorrow, the mourning, the long lines that day to pass the Rebbe, waiting for the Levaya, the Levaya, the Rabbis and public figures partaking in the Levaya, the Aron driving to the Ohel, the crowds.

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Thousands are Arriving!

Hundreds of chassidim and Temimim from all over the world have started to arrive in 770 and at the Ohel for Gimmel Tamuz

On Sunday tens of thousands of people are expected to come to the Ohel. Many will take part on organized farbrengens too.

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Photo Gallery: Siyum Sefer Torah

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday, the community celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah, in memory of Reb Mordechai Zvi and Rebetzin Rochel Charitnow. The Torah was completed at the Dubrawsky’s home on Empire Bvd and then a procession was led through the streets on Crown Heights with the new Torah.

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Photo Gallery: Seudas Moshiach in 770!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The last day of Passover (“Acharon Shel Pesach”) is particularly associated with Moshiach and the future redemption. The Baal Shem Tov instituted the custom of partaking of a “Seudas Moshiach” (Moshiachs Meal) on the afternoon of the last day of Passover; in addition to the Matzah eaten at “Seudas Moshiach”, the Rebbes of Chabad added the custom of drinking four cups of wine, as in the Seder held on Passover’s first days.

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Special Gallery: The Rebbe Watching the Mitzvah Tanks, 1990

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We are happy to present our viewers a very special and rare photo gallery of the Rebbe, taken on Yud Shvat 5750.

The Rebbe was on his way to the Ohel stopped for a few minutes and watched the Mitzvah Tanks, who were leaving on their way to Manhattan to do Mivtzoim. The Rebbe approached the curb and stood for a significant amount of time watching.

This special gallery contains 18 pictures from the French photographer M. Eisenberg.

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