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Guide: Laws and Customs of Shavuot

Ahead of the upcoming Yom Tov of Shavuot the Beis Din of Crown Heights released a six page guide which holds the answer to many questions and instruction as to many customs related to the holiday.

The guide was compiled by Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Levi Garelik.

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  • Good old days

    Finnaly,
    Yom Tov Directions from the original Beis din .
    Where have you been ?
    We love you Rabbi Osdoba , Please post more from the Rebbe’s Chosen Beis Din

  • To Good Old Days

    In the REAL good old days, Shwei was not part of the Bais Din. Whe he was added, that was the beginning of the end.

  • Would like to copy and paste or print

    Please post this in a way that we can print it.
    Thank you.

  • Wonderful!

    PLease post for every Yom Tov! ( especially Pesach)
    Yasher Koach.

  • Thank You Rabbi Garelik

    Too bad Rabbi Levi Garelik didn’t make himself a candidate for the Beth Din. He would have easily won.

  • Baffled

    Years ago Rabbi Twersky told me, there’s no such thing as a parve utensil. Foods can be parve. Dishes have to be milchig or fleishig, (dafke so that serious kashrus questions should not arise).

  • Baffled?

    Baffled, did you ever hear of a fish pot? Is that pot fleishig or milchig?

    Ask Rabbi Twersky again and he’ll explain to you why there is such a think as a special knife for cutting onions or garlic, and ask him what makes that knife fleishig or milchig.

  • To Baffled

    What part of parve are you baffled by? Obviously you shouldn’t eat the knife.

  • Rabbi Garelik

    Rabbi Garelik is a normal responsible person and he knows that he must feed his family, unfortunately our community doesn’t pay Rabbonim, they never did and it looks like they never will. That’s a bitter fact.

    Rabbi Marlow passed away and he was owed 3 years back-pay plus $150,000 in medical bills because he didn’t have a normal health insurance policy. Same applies to all the Rabbonim who serve in this community, they simply don’t get paid.

    The only guy who didn’t care if he’ll get paid is the one who did run in spite of the fact that he was forewarned that there will never be Parnassa for him to feed his family. For the life of me I cannot fathom what he thought will happen if we haven’t paid Rabbis in 25 years why would anything change?

    That was the reason Rabbi Garelik and lhabl“lach Rabbi Zirkind Z”L refused to run because they knew that they won’t have money to feed their family and the new Rav was to take on a full job without being allowed to hold another side job for Parnassa.

    The only Rav who could survive this ordeal is Rabbi Bogomilsky because he doesn’t need the salary of the community for basic survival. But we blew it and now we (and Rabbi Braun) pay the price.

  • parve

    Rabbi Twerski is 100% right. There is more problems having a parve kli then to be careful with the onion. For the parve knife you will need a special parve sponge and maybe a parve cutting board. It will be more difficult not to forget to wash the knife with the milchike or fleishike sponge using hot water etc. You better off putting the milchike or fleishike onion in a bag with a simon or place it always on a designated place or where you have milchike foods.

  • Baffled

    1) What’s a fish pot? I only know about separate meat and dairy dishes. Can I not make fish in a pan I make cheese omelets? Can I not make fish in a pan I cook hamburgers? I also need separate forks and spoons?
    2) Are you saying I also need separate knives for onions and garlic? I don’t know anything about this. How about cutting boards? Do I need knives for garlic and onions meat, knives for garlic and onions milk, knives for garlic and onions fish?
    Are you pulling my leg.

  • You Can Print This !!

    I just printed this letter. All you do is copy and paste section by section in Word. Then print each section.

  • fish pot

    The chabad minhag is to have a special COOKING pot used only for fish.
    You don’t need separate knives for sharp foods just make sure not to use same cut onion/garlic etc. for dairy and meat.

  • Moishie

    TO # 2: I am so glad you have no problem putting down and being mivayaish a dayan bifarhesya, especially 2 days before kabbolas hatorah. you should be ashamed of yourself! You should post a public apology, and beg HARAV Schwei for mechilla asap, and not wait until erev yom kippur to do so!!

  • Baffled?

    OK, it seems that you never heard of a fish pot, but the fact is that there is a Minhag Yisroel Midoirei Doirois that we don’t cook fish in the same pot as we cook meat or milk and we have a special fish pot. The same applies to an onion (garlic, horseradish, etc.) knife. And yyou are right, you would need a separate cutting board as well.

    However the concept of Pareve dishes is something which is more common in Europe and is not so practiced in the USA and it also seems that the logic that Rabbi Twersky presented is also the way the Russians (gezhe) feel.

  • Halacha???

    Attn: anyone who’s “baffled”…

    If you have a question in Halacha – the correct place to ask your question is your ROV – not anonymous posts on the internet.

    The point of such posts is to bring awareness to thou’s who don’t know their could be a problem, and therefor don’t ask.If reading comments brings you to a question… PLEASE ask your Rov.

  • Ro number 15

    Rabbi Garelik is not a normal person. He’s an above normal person who is totally devoted to the Rebbe. I do not believe money was the motivating factor for his decision.

  • seudo

    I think they forgot to mentioned something very important that people are maikl. The shiur eaten by the milchike seudo not to have to wash and bentch. Others even think that the main seudo is the dairy one and don’t eat meat which you have to on yom tov.

  • Knives

    The having 2 separate knives is a chidush in chabad, vehoraye we never heard this from Rabbi Dworkin or Rabbi Marlow or even Rabbi Osdoba. The fish pot is well known.

  • Halocheh Limaeiseh

    You also have to make sure not to poke your FORK into raw sliced onion, b/c then you run into sheilos just like the knife and maybe even more so.

  • to Halocheh Limaeiseh

    That’s a REAL chidush that even the Shulchan Aruch didn’t know. In Shulcxhan Aruch it mentions that by davar charif you have duchka dsakin (the pressure of cutting a sharp food with a knife) specifically, but nowhere does it mention a fork as having this issue unless its hot.

  • cheese

    Another issue people should know especially shovuos is that according to Rabbi ZS Dworkin hard and semi hard cheese like mozzarella cheddar etc you have to wait 6 hours to eat meat. Not necesarlly 6 months old cheese.

  • Ro number 15

    I get it, Rabbi Garelik is NOT normal, so why would you want a Meshuginer as a Rav? I never knew that a person who is responsible enough not to let his children starve (which even animals have in their instincts) is something that goes against the Rebbe!!!!!!

    Which Rebbe are you talking about? Definitely not our Rebbe, i.e. the Lubavitcher Rebbe of Dor Hashvii. Our Rebbe always instructed the Shluchim to make sure that they negotiate and sign contracts with their bosses who will pay them their wages and to hold them to their word, and he also instructed those shluchim who for whatever reason didn’t get paid, to take their employer to Beis Din and to demand their due.

    So there is no insult to anyone who is “normal” and responsible enough to take care of his G-d given responsibility to take care of his family and who refuses to take on a job that will definitely not provide for his needs. This is a Mitzvas Esse D’Oiraisa and also Midas Chassidus (as in Lubavitcher Chassidus).

    What is wrong, is when a man uproots his family of 11 children (now 12) ka“h, and drags them across the globe knowing that he won’t get paid, but he does have ”mesiras nefesh“ for the ”cause” and risk the lives of his wife and children. This is wrong and irresponsible, and goes against everything the Rebbe taught us (besides for all other disqualifications which are enumerated here).

    A Jew must be responsible, so says the Aibershter, so says the Torah and so says the Rebbe as did all the Rebeiim from Moshe Rabeinu till now.