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Hundreds of Kids Participate in Hakhel Farbrengen!

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Packed wall-to-wall in the Hakhel Sukkah, hundreds of kids participated in a special Hakhel Farbrengen after attending children’s Smichas Beis Hashueva. Led by Rabbi Shimi Weinbaum the children sang Nigunim, heard stories and enjoyed nosh and refreshments.

More pictures in the Extended Article!

The sight of hundreds of children all packed into the Sukkah was a blast of fresh air for parents who expressed their gratitude for the amazing program, which was arranged by the Igud Avrechim of Crown Heights.

To help cover the costs of the programming you can contact Igud Avrechim by emailing them at igudch@gmail.com

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25 Comments

  • No child left behind....

    Bs”d
    Very nice-but how is one to find out about these programs…I would have loved to go ?!?

  • 123

    WHERE WERE THE SIGNS FOR THIS:
    There were many many signs on all lamp posts all over the place. It was all about Hakhel gatherings for men, boys and kids and the time it would take place. But there was no ad on any chabad- crown heights web sites so many people did not know!

    This idea of gatherings, surely brought moshiach closer.

  • resident

    Great Job Rabbi Shimi Winbaum. You are a ral shliach of the rebbe in a place where it is needed most.Every one is si busy taking care of others that our own children are somwtimes forgotten Thank you for taking care of our children.May you go from strenth to strenth

  • thank you Shimmy

    thank you Shimmy Winebaum for all you do for the children in Crown Heights. Everything you do is amazing!!

  • Kop Doktar

    It’s so wonderful to see the boys and girls all sitting together at the same table enjoying the program. I’m sure this will encourage them to have achdus and ahavas yisroel amongst each other. It may even solve the sidduch crisis!

  • Alter Chosid

    Most comments on CHI seek to criticize, but this article has nothing but praise. It goes to show that we can have positive attitudes and give encouragement to activities that help the community. So what that it’s a co-ed program? So what if men and women were there together? It just doesn’t matter! We appreciate it because tzneius has long been abolished. We appreciate it because we are busy bringing moshiach and helping others keep mitzvos. And most of all, we appreciate it because it helps are kids become what we value most…pritzus NOW.

  • Hanhalah

    The chinuch of our children should be left in the hands of our chinuch mosdos – they may not be perfect but at least they are professional,accountable and follow guidelines. They would have avoided some issues that were unacceptable to chassidic standards.

  • anash member

    bsd
    Thank you rabbi Yehuda levin fromIGU AVREICHIM!!!!
    All anash take the initiative and donate. They are helping YOU!!

  • a grateful parent.

    thank you to a bochur who helped my young boys, who are from a small town and not used to crowds. They would have gotten lost if you had not helped them stand on a bench. I am grateful to you, for helping them have an experience we just don’t have here. you sang with them and made sure they had a place to sit when you left.
    Thank you.

  • ceo

    it truly is part of the idea of Hakel to call a neighbor about it and ask them to pass it on.
    just getting the call can cause a positive feeling.
    Yashar Koach to Shimmy Weinbaum!

  • Emes

    I suspect Crown Heights Info won’t print a comment stating the truth: A sukkah party of boys and girls sitting at the same table with adult male and female facing each other is simplt: si pazt nisht!

    You won’t print this because many members of the community can’t handle the truth.

  • Open Minded

    I am shocked by comments that belong more in Maya Sheorim complaining about so called breaches of tznius. Grow up! This isn’t Williamsberg. We have no use for a Tznius Patrol. Does anyone think that this event will cause our children to go off the derech??!!

    If you are too frum to send your kids, then don’t! Live and let live! And don’t preach your far-frumt’keit on everyone else.

    If we are too far-frumt, our kids will get turned off.

  • Normal

    Should an event please a few super frummies or service the community at large?

    If there’d be a machitza Me and my Kids wouldn’t be there. Same goes for most people I know.

    So let the frummies stay home while the normal people enjoy a Hakhel program.

  • Out of towner

    Reading this article and looking at the photos brought such a feeling of warmth and “jelousy” as to what these crown heights children are blessed to be a part of. As an out of towner we would dream for our children to have such a beautiful and chassidishe event to attend. It is such a shame that instead of people commenting on the beauty of this event they have to find fault and write nasty comments. You have taken the inspiration out of this because you feel a need to find a fault and turn this into something negative. If you do not like the way this event was set up then next time do a better job yourself. Until then allow these children to have the beautiful Hakhel gathering they have.

  • Kop

    To out of Towner:
    If someone makes a dangerous fire near your house, would you say, “If you do not like the way this event was set up then next time do a better job yourself”?

    This event sets a dangerous fire in my neighbourhood. I find fault in it. I criticize it. And, I am negative about it, because it places my home in danger.

    The solution is not for me to make a “safe fire” but to ensure that the fool who endangers my house must stop.

    This event was a dangerous fire – a fire a pritzus! You souldn’t be “inspired” by such events.

  • CHser

    Wow, it’s sad tat Kop is so negative and resentful towards people who do work for our children in Crown heights. And I agree that if he thinks he can do a better job he is more than welcome.

  • Kop

    To CHser:

    To make a Hakhel gathering for our children is beautiful, but suppose at such a gathering, the food and drink served had been treif – would you scream and be resentful?

    Now as you scream out against this no-longer-beautiful gathering, suppose I tell you, “If you think you can do a better job, you are more than welcome”, wouldn’t you think I’m a idiot for saying that?

    Suppose the food was kosher but there was an inappropriate entertainer, would you not be offended? Wouldn’t you scream in outrage?

    So why this silence when there is a breach of chassidishe (or even basic frum) standards?

    We cannot remain silent when the fire of the street threatns our homes, and the sad part is that you don’t even care.

  • out of towner

    Coming from a very ‘co-ed community’, At first glance i thought it was totally fine for the men and women to be separated by a table. But then after thinking about it, I realized that if these kids are at beautiful programs, that they are supposed to learn from, and they are sitting in such a way, they WILL C’V start thinking that it is totally fine and kosher form a man to sit at a table across from a woman. and before you know it, a young boy will be sitting across from a young girl in a restaurant, and not at a chassidishe program. but personally I wouldn’t have expected the organizers to have done a better job lichatchila, but we can all learn from mistakes.

  • upset in crown heights

    yes – make hakhel gatherings for our children are a good thing and we are supposed to do it. During hakhel years the Rebbe instructed us to make gatherings for men, women and children – but the Rebbe said that there should be SEPARATE gatherings for the boys and girls.Doesn’t anybody remember these sichos (and does anyone care?!)