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.
There is a boss
Yes, Moshiachs Tziten.
Oy!
That’s just what the ohel needs, a bunch of depressed & outraged jets & giants fans tossing papers in… :P
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not appropriate
Interesting
Amazing that they mentioned something nice about chabad . And yes the two New York teams need as prayers as they can get.
YMSP
A very rude, obnoxious writer with no shame or even basic decency, but hopefully good will come of the Ohel being read about by so many readers.
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sacreligious
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sacrilege