Lined up along 770 is piles of used older Seforim with a sign in Hebrew which read “take a blessing into your home, all the seforim here are free, whatever remains by nightfall (late) will be taken from here”.
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Photo Gallery: Free Seforim on Kingston!
Lined up along 770 is piles of used older Seforim with a sign in Hebrew which read “take a blessing into your home, all the seforim here are free, whatever remains by nightfall (late) will be taken from here”.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
halachic question
how are these holy seforim sitting directly on the dirty floor. epecially righ tnext to 770. this is an embarresment.
Just wondering..
A very thoughtful gesture…although i don’t live in CH if I did I would buy or donate a few inexpensive metal bookshelves to display them rather than see them strewn all over the sidewalk. Hopefully they will find wonderful adoptive homes ASAP!!
confused
I don’t understand. I thought you couldn’t put holy books on the floor, much less on the street? Please explain.
bookworm
there was probably no seforim worth taking, however i would still like to be there
point to ponder
just an observation, the books are all sitting on top of cardboards and arent directly on the sidewalk. still weak, it would be better on a table or somthing like it, but at least that…
Israeli Soldeir(Chabadnick)
What a shanda where is the respect for Torah gone in Lubavitch.
Show Respect
Point to ponder, you know what happens…they tip over, fall onto the sidewalk etc. Disgusting! You’re right, they should be on a table. Who just dumped the Sefarim like that?!
Good job it’s not raining.
To Israeli Soldier
Before you go bashing Lubavitch, know the facts. These Seforim happened to be “dumped” here by a person from WILLIAMSBURG, not a Lubavitcher. He has a seforim store there, where he sells used and rare seforim.
He had some cleaning up to do. He originally tried selling them for a buck a piece, but with no takers (or very little), it would have been too costly for him to rid of them another way, like Sheimos, so he left them for the taking.
I know this for a fact.
cardboard boxes
their on cardboard not directly on the floor and while its not great its NOT on the “dirty floor.”
NIMBY
Then, Israeli Soldier, you call him up & tell him to get his cast-offs back to his own back yard. Let him dump them in Williamsburg! Who does he think he is, some Yoely coming here with his garbage. Sefarim or not, he obviously thinks they are garbage or he would have disposed of them in the right way: a levaya.
CN
There were plenty of good books. Chumashim, Gemorrahs, Shulchan Aruch. My sons and I were all set to buy some, but couldn’t find who was the one selling them. Then we noticed the sign saying they were free.
shocked
That’s nice of the Williamsburger to donate the seforim but its still wrong to put holy seforim on the ground.
I did notice they are on cardboard,but I still feel that these are holy seforim and you don’t just leave them around like that.Whether you are Lubavitch or from Williamsburg
It’s plain wrong!
seforim
wow! this is sooo disrespectful to leave seforim like that!
what has happened to us??
chutzpa
the guy is from Lakewood not Williamsburg he dose the shaims were you pay $30 a bag to have it berried there and he try’s to find salvageable things he can sell and brings those seforim to CH and other places to sell when he can’t sell he just dumps them.
he has done this before he usily dumps 100-200 seforim each time but this time he dumped about 5000 seforim
it is a chutzpa and he is making a chilul hashem
chabad
its not on the floor its on boxes
dirty
would you eat off the floor? no. so yes it is a dirty floor.
yoyo
everyone , relax, whne i was in school some years ago, and we needed a specific chumash – beis yehuda, happens to be, my parents would get frustrated, it was hard for them to afford these basic things, and here i see exactly that chumash,
so…there are those that would take it cuz they can’t afford it, or just bec. they want to have that sefer, what is wrong with putting out seforim til night time,
there’s garbage on the floor, let seforim be tehre for a short while as well so that whoevr wants/needs can enjoy.
stop putting everything and everyone down.
y
someone who doesnt like those arguments
why do we just have to argue and make criticism?!?!?!?!?! BH we all think that thats not the proper way to treat sforim, but lets look at the good side of it!! maybe that would be more helpful!
38 yr in the hood
hey webby u put the pic of the right guy, a yodea seafer.
simon jacobson. good going
not a contest, a mitzvah
The main thing is he gave them away. Sometimes being “frum” instead of religious isn’t a good idea. He left the seforim in a place that was needed for people to see them.