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The Best Birthday Present in the World – Parade 56!

This Morning Bochurim and Children were seen milling around President St. between Kingston and Albany, where they were looking for their ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ and the group they will be sharing it with. The 56 Tanks, corresponding to the number of years of the Rebbes Nesius, were all lined up and geared up with Pesach Guides, Matzos, Neshe”K and Tefilin, to set off on the annual Mitzvah Tank Parade commemorating the Rebbes birthday which takes place on Sunday, Yud Alef Nissan.

At around 11:15am the parade set off, escorted by the NYPD’s Highway Division, right to Manhattan where the biggest Kiddush Hashem was displayed up 6th Avenue then down 5th Avenue. The parade ended at 24th St. and 5th Ave. and from where each tank set out to its designated location around the city.

Over 150 Gorgeous pictures of the Parade and Mivtzoim for all those of you that could not attend to get the feel of what it was like, in the Extended Article!

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52 Comments

  • a lubavitcher bochur

    " ze leumas ze" I heard the tzvaties are making a mitzvah tank parade with 11 tank 1 limo 4 motorcycles and with ….. Signs.
    verse 56 tanks 9 minivans 1 convertible and a police escort. And a $75,000 budget
    I gesso one side has been successful so far, now I know who is taake growing.
    "kayn yerboo".

  • fix me please the pictures aare crying?

    Nice pic’s webby but u have them all mixed up some here some there

  • awesome

    wow. These pictures are really very cute! Especially of the crowd in Manhattan looking and wondering. Its nice to see all different types of people seeing the good that goes on in the world with mivtzoim.

  • curios goerge

    i dont get why they all need thier heads and hands out the windows does it make the tanks go faster?
    oh and why was that guy so outwardly evesdropping on that payphones days worth of conversations?

  • ATTENTION TZVIKI..... YOU ROCKK!!!!!

    way to go tzviki… youre the cooolest… ya no that rite? tzviki is the bestest areound there…….

  • a crownheights.info addict

    beautiful pictures! they really capture the moment and the inspiring feeling!

  • Bachur from Mo-town!!!

    very nicely done binyomin! u got two pics of our broken down tank!!! very nice pics in general!!!

  • nice pics!

    nice pix webby! is that a cop writing a ticket in one of the first pictures?!

  • where was youre Kapate ???

    Shmukler what happend thid year???
    where was youre "Kapate"???

    Keep it up..

  • Chassidim ein mishpocha

    to "a lubavitcher bochur"
    if after looking at pictures of such a Kiddush Hashem the only thing that comes to your mind are negative thoughts,
    you are not a lubavitcher bochur at all… maybe a snag

  • good work

    wow nice work to u for the pics and to the ppl who make this parade happen its AMAZING!!

  • CHAI

    Amazing! note that these tanks all still have the "Long live…" Yet, they accomplished the mission. Don’t get get side tracked. Well done. Yechi not Yechi in not the question. Fulfilling the rebbe’s will is.

  • simon BASINGER PARIS FRANCE

    beautiful picture ! nice !! nice greater
    the very ‘kiddush hachem ‘ for the world
    and I see , crown heights is a hart of the world, and a best !! happy day and happy passover

  • Moish / Eretz Yisroel

    Thank you very much for letting us be part even if from a distance.

  • SOMEONE ON TANK 25

    it was very nice this yere i did the most mivtzoim that i ever did !1

    IT WAS JUST AMAZING
    (SORRY ABOUT MY SPELING I AM JUST A O.T. NICK)

  • If you care

    MendyTewel – Kol Hakavod, BH at least one picture was mivtzoyim and not PR, but I was in Manhattan yesterday and was really proud of the tanks and bochurim – a really beautiful thing.

  • Shepping

    WOW! Kiddush Hashem, Kiddush Lubavitch….LUbavitch lives on and is stronger than ever! V’kein yirbu!

  • Mother in CH

    To "chasidem ain meshpacha" WELL SAID!

    My words exactly.

    There’s always gotta be someone being judgemental and negative.

    Benyamin beautiful pics!

  • to?????????

    yud alefh nissan is on sonday and not that meny peaple will be in the streets so we did it on thursday so that we can do more mivtsoyim

  • meir ditisch from new haven

    a beutiful kiddush hashem which was very much needed after what happend thiis week in borogh park. chabad lubavitcj id the best!!!!!!!

  • Immanuel Fan

    you bet immanuel did it again 10 minutes after he finished sheva brachos!!!

  • RickY

    just wondering why in the world the bochur would be standing on the bus stop…. I thought the parade is for a kiddush hashem not to run loose and jump on bus stops????????

  • Immanuel????

    what did Imanuel have to do with the parade?

    i thought he was the "competition"? (at least on chanukah)

  • Rabbi A.

    Great Pics!!!!! Keep the pics coming>>>> You guys do fantastic work……. Great sight full of crown heights info…

  • inspired

    TO RICKY:
    The bachur on the bus stop was probebly very inspired by the kidush hashem and kidush lubavitch, just like old chasidim used to dance in the streets when they where inspired or happy, I dont think its a chillul hashem.

    just a thought!!!

  • coordinator #2

    Yeah – more van pics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    and put up the pics of the LA kids!!!

    thanks

  • immanuel fan 2

    att immanuel fan – i don’t quite think he did it 10 min after Sheva Brachos – where do you get your sources from and arew you positive that he did it? (even this time?)

  • MATHEW

    I ;ove these pics , ESPECIALLY THE MAN STANDIND ON TOP OF THE BUS STATION

  • to crownheights.info personality

    Do people call you when something happens? How on earth do you possibly know whats going on. I mean your all over the place. by the way,. I MUST COMPLIMENT YOU ON THE PICTURES YOU TAKE THEY ARE REALLY GOOD.

  • Anonymous

    To all the Immanuel fans out there, just to clarify:

    I don’t think he had any active roll in planning and arranging, but what I do know is that I drove one of the tanks.

    And thank you everyone for the compliments! It’s my pleasure to see my work really appreciated!

  • Ricky to isnpried

    Exactly my point thanks you, it is much more normal and excpetable to dance than to jump on top of a bus stop (phone booth). A Talmid CHocam has a resposnobitlty with his actions, and how they may come accross to others….not everyone walking on the street knows how inspired he is… and it will give them a negative outlook on chasidim ,and there parading habits…

  • to ricky

    i just want to agree with you. there are many bouchrim who do wild things because ‘they’re inspired’. i think although it is a great kiddush hashem, the fact that a boucher lost himself over it diminishes from the atmosphere. BOUCHRIM- remember who you are representing- THE REBBE. bouchrim dancing on top of phone boots is NOT the way the rebbe wants it to be- the rebbe wants you to be inspired to learn more, do more mivtzoyim. you can get inspired during farbrangens, but this wild insipration turns peole off (i witnessed it myself) that is not to take away from the fact it was a beutiful parade which many people stopped to look at and put on tefillen

  • proud to be lubavitch

    i am so upset i wasnt there. the pics are amazing but even more so lubavitch is amzing this make me so HAPPY

  • Elly Andrusier

    I am disappointed that you took down the posts from Avi Ezri and those who responded to him. You shouldn’t be so afraid of opinions not exactly like yours. Just because you don’t believe in davening to the Rebbe doesn’t mean that nobody else does.