David Scharf is planning a little get-together on Sunday in Brooklyn: dinner for 4,500 Hasidic rabbis.
“It’s the largest sit-down dinner in New York,” Mr. Scharf, 58, said Thusday as he surveyed his blank canvas, a cavernous warehouse in Red Hook.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the extremely untimely passing of Shliach Rabbi Mendy Deren OBM.
Mendy is survived by his parents, Yisrael and Vivi Deren, and his wife Sarah, as well as brothers and sisters.
Updated: The Levaya will take place today, Friday, and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadaas Chaples at 11:15am and will be passing by 770 at around 12:00pm.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
Shluchim packed in to the second floor of the Shluchim Office for a Thursday night Farbrengen which went on into the early hours of the morning.
Let’s see… Aleph… Hey… Gimmel… uh, no, that’s not right. The Gimmel comes before the Hey and after the Aleph. Or is it the Aleph comes before the Gimmel, but farther away from the Hey?
The late Bobover Rebbe is said to have been sitting on an airplane in the late 1950s, next to the famous playwright Arthur Miller.
Upon observing the care and reverence with which the Bobover Rebbe was escorted through the airport and settled into his seat by his young protégés – how they kept checking on his well-being and doting over him – Miller turned to the Rebbe and asked: “Rabbi, how come when I, a pillar of secular knowledge, lecture at a university I am treated casually, and even with disrespect by the students, while you, a teacher of an archaic tradition, are treated with utmost reverence, almost as a beloved surrogate parent, by your followers?”
The Rebbe, purportedly, smiled and replied: “It is very simple, you, a secular scholar, teach your students that they are descendants of monkeys, so when they look at you, they see someone who is one generation closer to their primitive ape past, no wonder why they treat you that way.
I, on the other hand, teach my students that they are descendants of the awesome generation who stood at Sinai and witnessed the greatest Divine revelation in history, so they consider me one generation closer to that transformational face to face encounter with the Divine, is it a wonder that they respect me?”
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The late Bobover Rebbe is said to have been sitting on an airplane in the late 1950s, next to the famous playwright Arthur Miller.
Upon observing the care and reverence with which the Bobover Rebbe was escorted through the airport and settled into his seat by his young protégés – how they kept checking on his well-being and doting over him – Miller turned to the Rebbe and asked: “Rabbi, how come when I, a pillar of secular knowledge, lecture at a university I am treated casually, and even with disrespect by the students, while you, a teacher of an archaic tradition, are treated with utmost reverence, almost as a beloved surrogate parent, by your followers?”
The Rebbe, purportedly, smiled and replied: “It is very simple, you, a secular scholar, teach your students that they are descendants of monkeys, so when they look at you, they see someone who is one generation closer to their primitive ape past, no wonder why they treat you that way.
I, on the other hand, teach my students that they are descendants of the awesome generation who stood at Sinai and witnessed the greatest Divine revelation in history, so they consider me one generation closer to that transformational face to face encounter with the Divine, is it a wonder that they respect me?”
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In honor of the Kinus Hashluchim CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present two unique photos from the Machne Israel development fund 1989. This was an opportunity for the lay leaders of Chabad institutions around the world to meet with the Rebbe. At the conclusion of these meetings the Rebbe would deliver a special talk to the Shluchim and would bless for continued success in their Shlichus.
Levi Rabin (Edgware, England) and Mushkie Loschak (S. Barbra, CA)
Clusters of Shluchim were observed around 770 and at the kinus perusing through chic black books embossed with just five words: “The People and The Book.”
Nosson and Rivky (nee Moss) Lang
Oihel Nosson, 580 Crown St [between Troy and Albany Ave]
Levi and Mira Martinez
Aliya, 525 E New York Ave [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Avremi and Bracha Mann
629 Montgomery St [between Brooklyn and Kingston Ave]
Mendy and Shaina Matusof
1505 President St [between Troy and Albany Ave]
Chanoch and Shainy Peysin
1548 President St Apt P [between Troy and Albany Ave]
Chaim and Esther Leah Vogel
825 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Kingston Ave]
Shmuel and Chanie Pevzner
1359 Union St [between New York and Brooklyn Ave]
Shmuly and Elana (nee Dauer) Kornfeld (Burbank, CA)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Once again a thief attempted to commit a crime in front of the eyes of two vigilant Shomrim volunteers, only to be stopped and arrested.
Bochurim who will be serving as staff members in Tzeirei Hashluchim program for all the children of Shluchim whose fathers are attending the Kinus, gathered today to prepare and discuss the upcoming programs for the children.
With great excitement and much anticipation, community members of S. Agathe and many Montrealers gathered together on Friday evening, October 22nd to welcome the Seminary BMC girls to a new year of learning in our beautiful Laurentian mountains.
For the first time in the history of the Kinus, Shluchim gathered in the Eden Palace located in the heart of Williamsburg for a day of seminars and sessions on a wide variety of topics, all aimed at helping Shluchim on their Shlichus.
On the chilly Friday afternoon of October 24th, 1945, nine Lubavitch students arrived in Montreal, Canada, from Shanghai, China. The young men had moved to town in order to strengthen the Jewish community under the direction of the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yossef Y. Schneerson.
After a successful summer, Mrs. Nechama Laber, director of the Jewish Girls Retreat in Troy, NY, was faced with a dilemma. Fifty girls from a wide spectrum of Jewish backgrounds were departing from camp inspired and recharged, each returning to her own community. What could she do to continue the inspiration for these girls throughout the year? How could the innovative methods used at the retreat reach girls in many more communities?
Newly elected Governor Dan Malloy was only certified by the Connecticut Secretary of State late this afternoon due to unforeseen voting problems in certain districts of the State. One thing is certain; Governor Malloy’s strong friendship with Israel, the Jewish People and Chabad.
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