CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Earlier this Sunday afternoon the alarm which usually signals the onset of Shabbos and Yom Tov went off, bewildering residents and burying the CrownHeights.info News inbox with nearly 100 emails inquiring as to why the alarm went off.
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Mid-Sunday Shabbos Alarm Bewilders Residents
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Earlier this Sunday afternoon the alarm which usually signals the onset of Shabbos and Yom Tov went off, bewildering residents and burying the CrownHeights.info News inbox with nearly 100 emails inquiring as to why the alarm went off.
So we contacted R. Mendel Goldstein, the father of the siren, and asked him what happened, he answered that it was a simple mistake in the timer, the alarm was supposed to go off tomorrow, signaling the beginning of Rosh Hashana, but instead it went off today.
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Some of the emails simply asked “who died?” which I relayed to Reb Mendel, who’s response was “people shouldn’t have such a negative outlook! They should be happy, another whole day to prepare for Rosh Hashana!” in his famous humorous tone.
SOMONE SPECIL
WOW Y DO PPL.HAV SUCH NEGATIVE FEELINGS! INSTEAD THEY SHOULD HAVE ASKED WHO GOT ENGAGED OR SOMETHING!. (JK)
Negative???
or has moshiach come!
mendel
I dont know about you, my whole family was SURE Moshiach was here!
My sister went to get her tamburine…
Me
Was it on time for licht bentchen erev Rosh Hashanah or was it wrong like many Fridays?
LOVIN LIFE!
well hey i mean u kno it shud b wen somthin happpy happens it goes off bt its only on a day wen a chosheve peron is niftard and shbbaos bt thats always
MOSHIACH NOW
I thought MOSHICH finally came!
cher
i thought maybe moshiach came
CSC
Guess he was really impatient for Rosh Hashanah to start.
Gut yontev, everyone.
CN
The NY Mets died.
meeeeeeeee
i was actualy standing on the corner of montgomery and kingston when the siren went off.. u shoulda seen the entire crown heights froze…. no one moved.. it was really cool…
and it was at 6:00… not exactly the time yom tov starts…
Shmuli
Is this news?
zev
Only iN Crown heights!!
disappointed
my first thought was, “Is Moshiach finally here?”
Hertzie
It was a call for new elections for the functionally dead Crown Heights Jewish Community Council board. The elections will have to come sooner or later, because Rubashkin will be sentenced before the end of the Roman year. And Chanina has been readying his campaign.
resident
URU YSHEINIM MISHINASCHEM
CHT
I thought that was for the last moment to blow the Shofar in month Elul. I remember immediately that I had not blown for my family in that day and started to blow with the siren.
thought moshiach came !
i got excited because i thought the rebbe was starting a farbrengen in 770 again!
abc
when i heard it, i knew it was NOT the shofar of Moshiach. That would be something different. I told my kids, its not the alarm for moshiach, but its a mistake! If it was moshiach, You would hear the shofar!!!!!!!! Or read it on CH info.
good yom tov. sweet new year
everyone had the same thoughts
i c every 1 thought it was moshiach.
my sister was dacing b/c she thought moshiach was hear
REALLY-IMPRESSED!
this whole thing was worth it becase #1 everyones thoughts went directly to moshiach!wow!look at the lubavitchers!
#2 cht(comment number 16) blew the shofar for his family
confuseed cuz of the siren
I thought maybe I mixed up the days and Rosh Hashana was starting I was like ‘NO!’
it was hashkacho protis
i never really knew what it was like to hear the alarm that the rebbe wa sgoing to farberenge sinc ei am too young but my mother said it autamatically and i was like yeah amby i should check 770 out to see if i finally can actually see a real farbrengen ,with the rebbe !
i love lubavitch
i cant agree enough that it was all worth it
sounds like thouse storeys with reb levi yitchok of bardichiv wanting to show hashem the yidins pure belief
may we merit to here sio”d(speedily in our days the sound of the sofar with the coming of moshiach
me
well, i woulda thought it was a hurricane
send moshiach already!
how beautiful are your people, Hashem! after all these years our thoughts automatically turn to the possibility of, “could moshiach finally be here?” or at least a farbrengen.
deff I suppose.....
I did’nt even hear it….
l.f.ds
i was on my way home and all the sudden dinggg!!!! the first second of the bell ringing i thought is moshiach here?? gosh that would have been a miracle!