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Picture of the Day: Can You Spot the Anomaly?

A Crownheights.info reader snapped this photo on a Manhattan Street. Can you figure out what is wrong with the picture?

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  • Anomaly?!

    It’s a shocking and callous display of disrespect to the Rebbe, Lubavitch and Yiddishkeit.

  • Disgusted

    Chillul Hashem & Chillul Lubavitch!!! They are making a complete mockery of the Rebbe.

  • PLEASE REMOVE

    Please Remove. It is MAMASH offensive. These people are sick enough to produce these doctored images, we should know better than to distribute it for them.

  • horrified

    everything is wrong with the picture!!!!!!can someone ,anyone, please Hashem there has to be some authority in LUbavitch thaqt can take that off the streets.

  • Who are these people?

    Who are these people?
    It says’LOVE A JEW’
    It says ‘Army of G-D’

  • OUT OF 770!

    This upsetting, disgusting, embarrassing, and out right despicable picture reflects the idodiology of those wearing yellow pins and yechi yarmulkah who run around 770, hitting people, breaking things, stealing property, and forcing Lubavitcher chasidim out of 770, including REB YOEL KAHAN!!
    Today there are bochurim who cannot walk inside 770 without being chased out and threatened to be killed!
    they cannot walk on the street by themselves!
    they are scared for there lives!!!

    Bochurim are being threatened to be KILLED!!
    Bochurim are being beaten up!
    Lubavitch property is being stolen and destroyed time and time again!

    All in the past 2 weeks!

    This is real! it is happening right under your noses!

    Enough is enough!!

    When will we lubavitchers finally stand up and put and end to this???

    The Hanhole of 770 has refused to take any action against the Thugs in 770 who are here only on there VISAS!

    One of the many solutions is:

    Firstly anyone who cares about what is going on in 770 should demand that the Hanhole of 770 cancel the VISAS of those bochurim who make trouble etc.

    NO ONE! should give any money to the yeshiva in 770 until this issue is dealt with!

  • How pathetic

    The “Mitzva Tank” is revolting. “King Messiah” — how pathetic. Lubavitch is one big sick joke. I’d write more but my language would probably be deemed inappropriate and censored.

  • Yeh...

    It says lubavitch on it…

    Should say from the lunatic-fringe-niturai-karta-fringe segment of cookooville…

  • woahh

    too many things. :(
    dont know which particular one you are referring to.
    maybe the fact that it says ‘love a jew’??

  • Give them credit!

    They put a hole in the Rebbe’s Heart just as he predicted! “Its like putting a knife in my heart and twisting it”!

  • Errata

    The Tzivos Hashem symbol among all the extremist meshigist trash?

    (Actually Reb Dovid Nachshon is the head of Tzivos Hashem in EY as well as being in charge of mitzvah tanks, but he would not go as far as this Purim crown outfit on the Rebbe chas vesholom and he does not have much to do with any tanks in the US).

  • Avrahom

    Chillul Hashem, It makes fun of the Rebbe and any chosid should takes measures to stop it

  • DISGUSTED!!!

    THAT IS ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING, AND IS AN EMBARESSMENT FOR THE REBBE AND CHABAD IN GENERAL,AND THEN PEOPLE WONDER WHY SO MANY MISNAGDIM HATE US!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Saddened Senior Citizen

    Beyond disgusted. Whoever put this picture on a tank or financed it, is causing the biggest chilul lubavitch imaginable.
    Not a wonder the frum velt thinks we are a bunch of retards. Why is there no Rabbinic authority condemning this. It’s time for our Rabbis to stand up to these mishugoyim and throw them out of Lubavitch.

  • this must stop

    OIYYY
    They dont even realize that they are making so much fun,,,
    this has to stop

  • Sruly Clapman

    This picture makes a mockery out of my Rebbe and action must be taken to stop it.

  • Everything

    What is right about the picture. Its bad enough that its on the Manhattan street you have to publicize it here?

  • zG

    I’m Not a Chabbad Chossid. I daven Ashkenaz. But the vocal and reactionary activities operated and observed by Some who claim to Be Chabad Chassiddim and “Believers” of the Rebbe has stooped to a new low. I dont have a problem with Meshichism if it still means that you beleive in the Rambam’m 13 principals of Emunah and uR Shomer Torah uMitzvos including Fasting on Tisha B’Av. The Rebbe Will live on like “Yakov Avinu Lo Meis” ~ As Long as his Torah and Chessed is continued by his “Children” it will live on. Siffoisoiv Doivvois B’Kever. Like Toldos Noach-Noach ishTzaddik. The Rebbe was a Leader in Klal Yisrael. Perhaps one of the Greatest Leaders of Israel of the last Century. Why all the hype and disrespect? His Gadlus of Torah & Chessed, A Tremendous Gaon, Tzaddik and a clear Baal Ruach Hakodesh. The Rebbe was someone who showed us how we can be a yid and a Tzaddik even in Golus of Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Navy Yard. “V’Yosef Hoya B’Mitrayim” but he was still the same Tzaddik. “Vayar es HoAgolos” the Same Brenn for Torah Yiddishkeit, Kedusha and Chassidus. Personally, Ive been to 770 and the Ohel Many times. And I’m proud “Ashrei Ha’Am She’Kacha Lo” – That we were able to benefit and the Rebbe continues “Chadashim L’Bkarim” to shine and live on. May we experience the Geula Shleima Soon!

  • the flags...

    a american flag as well as the messiah flag…
    and the rebbe has a crown… what the heck???????????????

  • DISGUSTED

    REMOVE FROM SITE NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE AND NOT WEEP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • sick to my stomach

    anyone that believes that this is what the rebbe wanted should immedietly check into bellevue hospital mental ward for a long long stay

    i cry for what lubavitch was under the rebber

    if shemtov krinsky and kotlarsky cant stop this then they should be ashamed

  • so sad this in not some of THEM

    so sad this in not some of THEM this is the all group of none jews mesianics jew haters

  • this is disgusting

    interesting that there are authorities in Lubavitch who can put out a psak about when a boshur should get married ,They were brave and strong enough in their conviction to put it online and print and mail it to all parents-But there is not one leader, rosh yeshiva, mashpia, rov=. NOT ONE<NOT EVEN ONE-who could react to this horrible picture, or even make you guys take it off the net. Ifind thatfascinating. So they CAN speak when they want to. I guess no one wants to.that is so sad for us and our children.one word describes the picture and the reaction or lackthereof–PHEH

  • Sam

    I don’t see anything wrong. Most Lubavitcher thinks believe he’s king machiach so what is wrong?

  • CHT

    The Rebbe is a King for many, even those who have problem saying he is Moshiach, in other words, saying that the Rebbe is a King much more politically correct than he is Moshiach.

    The only problem with the picture is that someone took upon himself creating a visual image of a Jewish King. It is pretty bold task. it may not provoke much sympathy. But if you think just for a minute: does it give a reason to hate.

  • what happened oy vehz

    I am sorry to tell this, but I went to a meeting today with some Jews who are living secular lives now. When I mentioned about Shabbos candles to them, they told me that they had seen this missionary wagon with a man wearing a crown and if thats what I am talking about then they don’t want to hear about it, and they looked at me the rest of the time I was with them, like I was weird.
    Why don’t they just move to another community because this missionary stuff has crossed the line. it is really nebach.
    It is so sad, it does not represent anything rational, it is insane, and I am embarassed and upset

  • respond

    yes, I’d like to know who owns and runs that one. I am insulted. This is the Rebbe of the world, why is someone making this look missionary? Whether one believes one way or the other, why is that gaudy tacky looking tank parading around making us look like missionaries. Thats what people think of it.

  • Steven

    Thank you zG for your mentshlich words.

    Wonder if the kids that put that up and the person that paid for it, have a Mashpia, and if the Mashpia has enough guts and brains to tell them to remove that Chillul Hashem. Do you know how much damage this does and why Lubavitch is the laughing stock of world Jewry?

  • to # 32

    thank you! couldn’t have said it better myself.
    Every Jew has to be a meshichist, i.e. davenning and believing in the coming of moshiah. These people nebach have bastardized the term. and GEVALT – they want the Rebbe in an ORANGE ROBE!?! Wasn’t that already tken by the doo-doo’ist cult? R”L REFUAH SHALAYMAH

  • Lets Face the Facts

    When the Rebbe steps out of that picture and is declared Melech Moshiach certain people here are going to be very embarrassed.

  • pell grant abuse = crazy people

    if your son is in 770, chovovie or Montreal, do not – I repeat, do not – fill out the Pell Grant application.
    The money received is **supposed** to be applied 100% to your son’s tuiion. But you still pay the full amount, and the entire grant (minus about $200 pocket money for your son) goes to support the mad men with yellow flags and hallucinations in 770!

    Yes, the tzfatim terrorists are here with your son’s pell grant award!
    You can stop it.

  • help!

    theyve lost the plot…lost their marbles..enough is enough!!
    where are our leaders ,mashpiem etc..its their fault as theyve incouraged this nonsense for so long and this is the result and it will only get worse unless they take a stand and put an end to the madness..please lets get back to authentic judaism or else we are doomed

  • bnos menachem father

    I am revolted by this blatant disrespect of the rebbe ztl. amazing 70+ comments all in total revulsion – although a bnos menachem parent we are way more sympathetic to the normal lubavitch/chabad today and this is so totally wrong I am actually speechless.

    Tell me this is a purim joke – which obviously is still disgusting!

    Shame on you fellow chabadniks that connect with this misinformed lot!

  • To all from Gedaliah Goodman

    In 1991, all the newspapers in Israel had pictures of the Rebbe MHM wearing a crown. That was for Yud Shvat. Everyone was so excited about it. Of course there were, as you can imagine, those embarrassed Chabad people. But that’s the reallity, many chabadskers always felt that way. So now they all came out of the closet and let everyone know that they really always were against MHM. This is not news, it was predicted by the Rebbe Rashab that the most opposition to MHM would come from chabad lubavitch. So now you can calm down, since it’s just the truth of the Rebbe Rashab’s prediction being revealed for the whole world to see.

  • ROYAL is as ROYAL does

    to: 81. Lets Face the Facts wrote:

    its not about embarassed. Its about presenting a melech like a melech. When WE act royally (dignified) then the Rebbe is a Melech.
    Parading the Rebbe’s picture with a Purim costume does not make anything royal or regal.
    WE ARE THE REBBE’S CROWN.
    Not a picture which people associate with the missionaries.

  • to CH.info

    I agree with number 13.

    But this is a request to you, the editor, please take this down i feel offended that you are helping this be publicized and it hurts me to see this picture every time i scroll down your page today, please.

  • number 88

    #85: out of 88 comments so far, you are the only one to say that. its funny but everyone else thinks differently. doesnt that give you some hints? MHM may be believed by many, but a gaudy truck does not look, as someone said, royal. we have to present properly, with thought and dignity…. always the way of the Rebbe

  • To ALL from Gedaliah Goodman

    When MHM(the Rebbe to some) was approached about building a house for MHM in Eretz Yisrael, MHM said to them, “You must mean a PALACE”. Since MHM asked for a PALACE, that must also be disgusting
    to those who think that a JEWISH KING is a disgusting site. For a gentile king to wear a crown thats good, KOSHER. Those jews, and there are many, I won’t mention their names, are so proud that they went to the pope, had a meeting with him, got to KISS his ring, and put their picture up for all to see. No wonder the bas Yisrael parades around like the gentiles. No wonder so many have trimmed beards. They feel that the GOY is the proper image to represent the MHM. To look like a gentile, act like a gentile, speak like a gentile, etc. All you people who dislike the Crown on MHM, would LIKE the picture of MHM with a Crown, if they would have TRIMMED the beard, or even taken the beard off. How about a nice picture of R. Chaya Mushkah in a mini skirt, after all there are hundreds of Chaya Mushka’s going around in short skirts, mini skirts. That’s not disgusting to you people. The King MHM with a CROWN that’s, as you say, that’s disgusting. You can’t even bear to think of such a thing, such a possibility, of a JEWISH KING, much less to see a picture of MHM wearing the CROWN of ROYALTY. And you find something wrong, improper with the picture on the tank. The PICTURE in your minds and hearts, that’s what’s wrong. If you are so unhappy, where are your names? Tell people who you are, IF you are so proud of your hatred for MHM. I live in C.H. and my name is Gedaliah Goodman, and I LOVE the picture of the KING MHM with the KING’s CROWN in IT’s proper place.

  • OMG

    what is not wrong with this picture – it is totally disgusting and embarrassing to chabad- how dare they!

  • zG

    I think that it was unnecessary for the site to display any acts of narishkeit and shtus performed by a select vocal few. Many Chassidim and others derive Agmas Nefesh seeing the Rebbe depicted so disrespectfully. To have a photo or visual presentation of a Rebbe or a Tzaddik is B’Geder “V’Hoyo Einecha Ro’eh es Moreicha” (- That your Eyes shall gaze at your mentor). This is Wrong. And “Aderaba Tein B’Libeinu Shenir’eh Kol Echad Ma’alas Chaveireinu V’Lo Chesronim” (- May we all see our Friend’s Positive traits and not their shortcomings). ItS not healthy spiritually to view and see things which shouldnt be done. My Friend told me he once went to a Shul out in Long Island to Lain. The Rabbi was Frum, The Shul was Orthodox, But most of his congregants were car-driving to Shul on Shabbos Jews. The Rabbi told him that for 30 (or 40) years he never saw Chilul Shabbos. He always came earlier and left later so as not to see the shortcomings of others. The Rav i think was a Talmid of HaGaon Rav Aron Kotler Zt”L

  • Bochur

    “The money received is **supposed** to be applied 100% to your son’s tuiion.” From what I understand Pell Grant money is supposed to go directly *to the student* for personal expenses while studying. You get student loans to help pay tuition, and you get FREE money, GRANT MONEY, to help with books or food or whatever while you’re in “college.” The money is *not* for the school, and certainly not to support foreign students.

  • To 92

    I was also in Israel in 1991, and I also saw the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s picture with a crown on his head. It was all over the newspapers and on the televisions. You could not miss it. It was everywhere you went, buses, posters. I asked a Lubavitcher when this would happen. He said on 10 of Shvat. Then we heard that they were to ashamed to actually go through with it. I asked this guy who stopped it and he said, ‘the guys in New York’. The Israelis were very dissapointed, that I remember clearly.

  • to #66

    If Aguch can’t/won’t stop the insanity & violence in 770, how do you expect Rabbis Shemtov Krinsky & Kotlarsky to stop THIS?????

  • normal michichist

    I believe the Rebbe is Moshiach and here on some level and people should know that not all michichist are like that. There are some extremist- so dont generalize! yes they are very wrong but just know there are extremes in everything….. this should not be a generalization for all michichist!!

  • Shmuel - Chicago

    If not for #76 above — “they told me that they had seen this missionary wagon with a man wearing a crown” — I would have concluded that this was PhotoShopped. (To me, it looks like they did a messy job of overlaying shadows on the addition.) If this really does appear on a tank, I hope it comes off soon, because it’s already being reported as: “New Mitzvah Tanks will have the photo of the late dead Rabbi dressed up as a king with a crown.” See http://jewishnews.sharepoin…

  • Avremy

    where is that tank what city is it in who runs it ? He should b stopped even by the Mishichist party that is going way over board excuse me this is “Unacceptable Behavior” Inappropriate I am sorry. Get rid of him fast asap. but 1st i would like 2 know who is doing this & what city this is in. STOP THIS JERKOFF NOW

  • RESPONSE TO GEDALIAH GOODMAN

    To #93:

    The simple answer to your simple-mindedness is that it is precisely your grotesque behavior along with all those you represent that has systematically caused increasing machloikes in Lubavitch since Gimmel Tammuz. Coupled with variations of the absurdity highlighted in this picture – which you support – it is little wonder that many of our own precious children don’t want to identify with Chabad and indeed rebel against the system. To their mind – “Chabad I am taught is the epitome of Jewish living. And yet if Gedaliah Goodman represents Chabad and can embarass me to the world like that, then I want nothing to do with Chabad, and by extension Jewish living.”

    You don’t like the mini skirts Gedaliah? You don’t like the trimmed beards? Too true! But know that it is on your head. Every hair that falls from a bochur’s face – every inch that skirt is raised above a girls knee – is another chip off your neshama and the likes of you.

  • RESPONSE TO CROWN HEIGHTS. INFO

    You have to appreciate that in publicizing this picture you share in the avairah. Wehn you put this up then other websites who trawl through this one, put it up. Sure you enjoy being quoted as source in so many places – but this one is beyond the pale. If other websites show this picture, and one already is, and the end result is that others become aware and mock Chabad and the Rebbe – it’s on your head.

  • km

    Someone probably photoshopped it on.
    and even if not why is crownheights.info posting this up?
    so dumb they shouldve just deleted it or something why post it up for everyone like that? maybe they should post up everytime someone does something really stupid and snaps a photo of it.
    And btw I personally know many israeli bochurim and not all of them are like that in fact that is a minority. Many of them are nice caring chassidishe bochurim.

  • Anon

    Reply to #82 I think you are onto something…. Look into who runs the Pell Grants, what are his and his brother’s views about this. They are the $upporter$ of this.

  • just a guy

    why sud he take it off?

    this is a news blog about chabad – that doesn’t hide behind a facade.

    It is a total sham and is newworthy enough for everyone to see what is being done in the name of the rebbe –

    a broch!

  • Wow

    Wow, Its nice to see so many people against the stupidity of these Tzfatim as they take everything the Rebbe worked so hard on getting out there to every person in the world, and publicly flushing it down the toilet and doing it all in the name of the Rebbe.
    Its sad, its damaging to the cause the Rebbe spent his life working on, and its something that everyone must speak out against and of course support those who are working hard to clean up this mess.
    Thank you CHI for posting this picture. Now people realize what these people are about and that there is no good in what they are doing. And now everyone can see how many people are really against what these Jewish thugs are doing to us, to our community and to the people we are trying to bring closer to Judaism.

  • missed the point

    You people missed the point.

    You’ve gone from helping to end the golus by spreading yiddishkeit,
    to alienating people from having anything to do with your brand of yiddishkeit.

    I can’t help thinking your focus needs to be readjusted to serving Hashem and not wondering what crown.. etc.. the Rebbe should be wearing now ????
    Somehow I think the Rebbe would be disapointed at what direction this is all turning.
    His stress was always on a strong connection to G-d thrue Torah and Mitzvos and acts of kindness.
    ITS IMPORTANT TO END THE GOLUS , YOU CAN’T DO THAT IF YOU’VE LOST SIGHT OF THE REASON WE ARE ALL HERE TO BEGIN WITH!

  • Enough!

    Moshiach is supposed to ride a donkey. Gedaliah Goodman trains horses. Not a candidate by a longshot.

  • Yellow coat would make sense!

    What’s with the oragne coat – the proper color is yellow?!

    And since all chassidim try to imitate their rebbe, we MUST all start wearing yellow suits, coats and hats.

    Since it is hard to buy a bright yellow suit/coat/kappota or hat, I am starting a new business just to supply such “must have” clothing. I am expand to include women and girl’s dreses and sheitels in bright yellow.

    Forget the stupid pins, which are hardly noticeable. If you believe, then wrap yourself in yellow and wear it proudly!

  • To 116

    Midrash on Megillas Esther: The Moshiach will come riding on a horse, just like Mordechai was led riding on a horse. Because it is not kovedik, honorable, for Moshiach to ride on a donkey. Good luck to this person who you say trains horses, but I must say that I find it impossible to believe that a chossid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe is a horse trainer. It sounds like a bubbe mietza, an old wifes tale for sure.

  • What

    A Lubavitcher chossid that trains horses? That sounds more weird than, than the Rebbe with a crown on his head. You must be kidding of course? Ridiculous. None of us believe it.

  • larry

    This has nothing to do with Chabad Lubavitch. It’s one freak, who was run out of 770 several years ago for (among other things) putting out fliers with this exact same picture on it.

  • Train your ferd right!

    You can find information about Gedalia Goodman online, in the archives of a publication that espouses views similar to his. I know him personally and I know that he is indeed a horse trainer.

  • Saw it on youtube amazed in Boro Park

    We saw it on youtube. We saw and heard the Rebbe giving Gedaliah Goodman a blessing for training horses. The Rebbe even mentioned ferd a couple of times. The Rebbe even gave Gedaliah’s wife a blessing to have success with the horses. We were astounded, We did not think it was true. See for yourselves. Put in both names and you will see many videos of him. Truth is stranger tha fiction. Seeing is believing.

  • Ad Masai!

    It’s truly astounding that the “leaders” in 770 don’t have the guts to take out the garbage, to allow good old ‘regular’ Chassidim to come back in and to Daven in our Shul.

  • To#124 from Gedaliah Goodman

    Not astounding at all. The MHM wants the Meshechistim in 770 obviously. That’s why they are there. The Rebbe Rashab said that he choses who he wants, surely MHM choses who MHM wants. It is a shame that those who are out of 770 by MHM’s choice, should be labeled, by you, as ‘garbage’. I do not think MHM would like them refered to as such. It is very uncouth of you to use such language. I would agree that those who are not in 770 are not zocheh, do not merit to be in 770, but I would not call them such a thing. Open your eyes and you will see that there is ONLY one leader, not just in 770, but for the whole world, MHM.

  • Horse sense

    It seems that one of the horses must have kicked Gedaliah G. in the head — or maybe it was more than one horse that kicked him. He clearly is no longer capable of thinking like a man.

    Hey Gedaliah – please get yourself to a psychiatrist really fast.

  • Sad Reality

    The sad reality is that unfortunately this is no longer an “anomaly.” It is par for the course and what one can expect from the Lubavitch-Meshichist cult today. Any picture taken inside 770 will reveal the same idiocy – Yechi signs, etc., all over the walls, freaky people with nutty slogans on their yarmulkas and silly yellow pins on their jackets, and the like… The place is nothing but a looney bin.

  • From amazed Boro Park

    We are all still talking about the videos of Gedaliah with the horses. We see that it is very clear that the Rebbe wants G out there. We asked around and found out he has been out there doing the Rebbe’s shlichus with the horses for many years. Before that they said he was learning in kolel in Israel for 8 years & that the Rebbe asked him to stay in america to go out to the world. He must be very strong in order to deal with that kind of life of racing,gambling, casinos, and the people in that life style. One person told us he knows of many people that became frum from seeing Gedaliah on T.V., internet, newspaper and magazine stories. We have watched these videos many times and enjoy it more each time. The Rebbe is for sure getting a sach nachus from his shlichus. We also are reading the comments, and must tell you we think that Gedaliah seems to be the only one in the Rebbes corner. Keep up the good work G. You maybe alone in the world, but so was Avraham Avinu. From your new found friends in Boro Park.

  • To Gedaliah Goodman

    Why don’t you move to Boro Park? You see they like you over there. Get the h*** out of Crown Heights. We don’t want crazy people that think that the Rebbe is moshiach living in C.H. All you guys just make a lot of trouble for us. The normal Jews out there who don’t keep Torah and Mitzvot see you guys and don’t want any part of becoming frum, they want to be around normal people who don’t talk about this moshiach stuff. Just get out so we normal Lubavitchers can have some peace.

  • also amazed in williamsburg

    My friends told me about this horse guy. I also thouht it was a mishagas. Even wen i saw it I could not believe my eyes. A chosid fun Rebbe doing such a thing. We are also amazed in williamsburg. Only the Rebbe could do such a thing. We talked a lot about this and not so sure a stam Rebbe could do such a thing. Why so many not like what he does and say i do not understand it at all. A pushet gemora every one should think his Rebbe is Moshiach. We do not thats our problem. We all agree this is the most amazing shlichus we have ever seen. and we had to look for it on a back page. Some of my chaverim could not find it. I see that it is true no one really wants to see the picyure and they do not want anyone to read what this Gedaliah is saying. zenen alla mishuga. Good luck Gedaliah Goodman.