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UPDATE FOR THE KSCVK BBQ FOR MEN TONIGHT

Due to the advice of the Rabbinical authorities, mashpiem and the advice of people of our community, the mashke tasting contest will be cancelled. The BBQ will go on as planned rain or shine with renowned badchan Reb Shlomo Hadarshan.

We ask everyone to please come and support Devorah Benjamin for her timeless effort and hard work of Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah who helps the community and shluchim literally all over the world.

If you live out of town or cannot come to the event please go to www.kscvk.org and make your generous donation. The organization is in desperate need for help. We are in a very big deficit.

Thank you
Devorah Benjamin

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9 Comments

  • Out of touch!

    Thank you Rabbonim, for proving how out of touch you are.
    With all that’s going on behind closed doors (and increasingly these days in public) in our community, you choose to speak out against an innocent little competition!

  • A Yid is nichter

    To # 1
    Torah zu lo tehe muchlefes.
    Rabbonim pasken according to Torah, not according to the times or the touch.
    It’s our privilege to have Rabbonim who lead us and tell us how Hashem wants us to live.
    May you have many simchas IYH and then you can say LChaim.

  • IN TOUCH WITH YIDDISHKEIT!

    a drinking competition (as referred to in comment #1) and/or a mashke tasting is very not in line with Yiddish standards. I am encouraged to see that the rabbonim can accomplish something positive, and that an organization is respecting the rabbonim!. I think that KSCVK should be commended for it.
    A wine tasting is one thing but a mashke tasting where many people will come line up, and take shots with the intention of getting drunk is not the way of Yidden. (just my humble opinion)
    Either way i think that this act should be commended, and while i was not able to go (and was not intending to give a donation) will now give a donation to offset any loses they might incur due to this respectable decision they have made to cancel the mashke tasting.

  • To #3

    To #3

    “A wine tasting is one thing but a mashke tasting where many people will come line up, and take shots with the intention of getting drunk is not the way of Yidden.”

    Wine tasting is just as bad as mashke tasting your just thinking like an American and not a Russian. And there was never any intention of having ppl line up and take shots with the intention of getting drunk, your more likely to get drunk at a wine tasting.

  • Out of touch!

    To 2&3:
    My point is not whether the Rabbonim are right or wrong, my point is where are they when it comes to addressing the real issues in crown heights? Tznius (men and women)?, men shaving, wearing rings jeans etc…What about abusive landlords (i am sure quite a number of Halchos are being broken there), kids being thrown out of school because their parents cant afford tuition (that’s also against Halocha…)or for that matter Moissads not paying their staff on time unless your
    “connected” in which case you get paid double and onetime.
    And this was not a mashke tasting where one gets drunk, it was a competition to see if all the “mavinim” know there stuff.
    Full credit for Mrs. Benjamin for obeying the Rabbonim, i just wish they would speak up about the real issues facing this community.

  • Eli

    May this be the first of many assertive steps to make the Rebbe really proud of the shchuna. Kudos to the Rabbonim and kudos to Devora B and her wonderful organization

  • yosy

    any time you serve mashke – you open up a very dangerous door.
    mashke has it’s place (purim, simchos etc. etc.) But when you start having mashke “stam in mitten voch”, then you are creating a recipe for disaster.
    I commend the rabbonim for having the guts to stop such hoilelus, but, why was this even a hava amina to begin with?!
    there are other ways of raising money without having to imitate goyim and their goyishe ways.