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Video: Speech by R. Yosef Braun

Crown Heights’ new Rabbi Yosef Braun addressed the crowd at his ‘Installation Ceremony’ Sunday night in 770 Eastern Parkway. CrownHeights.info presents his speech in full.

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  • Shea Redner

    what a great speech!
    this man has it!
    he is humble!
    smart!
    sharp!
    i’m sure anyone who will hear him will get to like him!

  • Gevaldige speech

    you can see that Rav Braun has what it takes to bring peace and Achdus to the community
    you can see that he can reach out to our youth and restore trust and tranquility!

  • heshi & mechi

    We are very lucky to have such a great Rabbi.

    we are all looking forward to a bright future with Rabbi Braun.

  • Well Spoken

    Our new Rov is obviously a very gifted orator with a razor sharp mind. His style is so refreshing after years of falling asleep as our Robbanim (zull zyin gezunt un shtark) launch into hour + Pilpulim that nobody can follow.

  • Just saying.

    One of the main claims of those against rabbi broun is, that those who voted for him didn’t have all the facts, and if they would have known what they now know they wouldn’t have voted for him.

    That argument can now be put to rest, I would say more people came out last night then voted for him to begin with.

  • Give it a minute...

    If we repeat enough times how ‘amazing’ and ‘smart’ this speech is, it will make it amazing and smart. Right? Right?!

    There are many young [and even better] speakers they could have gotten if that is what counts, don’t lose focus, a liar is a liar is a liar.

  • I loved it.

    I know people are gonna nitpick but overall it was a great speech and we have a Rov we can be proud of.

  • I loved it.

    I know people are gonna nitpick but overall it was a great speech and we have a Rov we can be proud of.

  • real sholom is coming

    wow great speech
    he really is a smart, learned, humble rov, and most important willing to forget and forgive, and work toward real shalom!
    Boruch Haboh!
    שהחינו וקימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה

  • Self righteous garbage.

    To all those regurgitating the false claim that your new Rov does not have Smicha. I suggest you take a deap look at yourself and:

    Why are you bringing up these claims?
    Are you doing it because of your religious beliefs or do you have another agenda?
    If you had no doubts about R’ Braun’s qualification’s would you except him and respect him as your Rov?
    Have you done any real research or are you just repeating what you heard and read online.
    At this point, is continuing to fight R’ Braun the best thing for the community and our children?….

    If your honest with yourself you may reconsider.

  • Eli

    The speach showed is arrogance . He is a Jewish Obama . With dummies falling all over themselves.

    He is aragont and full of hi own ego.

    Just listen. If he was as good as some of you thing he is do you thing Australia would have cut him lose like that. This guy is the real poison. The Aigel from drek

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    Reigniting The Flame Of Hate: A Reveiw Of The Installation Ceremony of Braun

    1. The event last night was a flashback to the first years of the Mishichist revaluation. Last nights was reminiscent of the pure hate we witnessed after the Rebbe ZT”L passed away (1994). If your not old enough to know what I’m talking about, just read ‘A House Divided’ to get somewhat of a picture of the hate that went towards those who would not submit to the Mishichist cult. Open the Beis Moshiach magazine from the first few years and you will find much of the same hateful rhetoric we heard last night from, Braun, Schwei and Mangel, only this time change the MH”M to Braun.

    What I saw last night was an attempt to Reigniting The Flame Of Hate to it’s glory of old.

    Thank G-d it’s not going to work as it did then. Those days are over! It took us so many years to finally realize whats it’s all really about, it’s about the money. Take away the cash flow and there is no threat. Nobody is going to touch or even attempt to touch anything that is not theirs!

    2. As we all can see from the pictures, there were more Bochrim/Young lads then there were Baal Habatim (Married residents). We can debate this fact all we want, the pictures are available for all to see. For every 2-3 Baal Habatim we see 10 -15 Bochrim.

    The residence of the Crown Heights Community boycotted the event held for Mr. Braun by the Mishichist Mossrim.

    Evidence of this is the look on the faces of those few supporters/Mossrim who did show up and the way they were walking around this morning, not with happy smiling faces, (they will pretend after reading this). They are all depressed, angry and bitter.

    3. All the speeches were mainly on the defensive and on the attack (against those who oppose). Braun went from speaking Torah, to pretending like he doesn’t care and want to just move on and get along with everybody, but that was very very short lived. The speech turned in to a defensive, angry, bitter one and on a few occasions very threating to those who would dare oppose his holiness.

    “BLOOD WILL FLOW”
    Translation: More Mesira, More Machlokes.
    The hateful Braun had some very strong and threating words for those who oppose him, first he related a story about how a holy Rabbi was able to stop a threat by using a holy word, Braun then went on to relate to the crowd that he to has a word… and that word was “ACHDUSE”.

    We here in Crown Heights have come to learn that when Mishichistim Mossrim use the word “ACHDUSE”, it’s a code word for “it’s either me or you”

    Trying to explain himself, Braun went on to say…”BLOOD WILL FLOW, BUT ACHDUSE THERE WILL BE”. WIS searched the Hayom Yom and hundreds of talk and Discourses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and could not find this phrase anywhere. In fact I can’t find this phrase being used by any of the Chassdic masters.

    We have all just experienced 15+ years of the Mishichist Mossrim party trying to implement the above statement and everything it implies. We all witnessed more then enough vicious attacks (propaganda) against good people (highly respected Rabonim and regular hard working people) . We witnessed a fair amount of violent acts by Mishicihst Mossrim and we have witnessed many Blood libels/MESIRA against fellow Jews.

    Did I get nervous hearing this from Braun? Should you get nervous?

    Absolutely not! The rules have changed, this isn’t their playing field anymore, no more will we turn the other cheek.

    We are fighting back. We fight for Truth and justice and truth and justice will prevail!

    4. Last night we all got to see for the second time, since the conclusion of the elections for Rov, who are those who are backing Mr. Braun. We saw all the star Mossrim and Ganovim cheering on their main man Braun.

    The Mosser Paul Huebner
    The Ganef Efraim Setton

    The Ganef and Mosser Yankle Spritzer,
    Schwei main man Shmuel Kraus,
    Mossrim Yaakov Herzog, Yisroel Sandaus and Joseph Speinlman.

    Schwei has zero qualities to be a Rov or anything for that matter.

    While Jewish Blood was flowing in the Streets of Crown Heights and individuals like Mendle Hendel, Paul Huebner and all those pictured above with Braun were caring out a vicious Mesira in Schwies name, Schwie just let it pass in silence. Schwie states at the time that he does not have the power to take on “these people” (meaning his so called “own people).

    Read Letter to Rabbi Schwei By Hershkop Family.
    http://machanemenachem.word…

    The above are the Mossrim and their leaders, as to those in the crowed who justify and excuse Mesira, WIS will find some other time to get to you.

    Chanina Sperlin
    Elie Poltorak and
    MENDLE HENDEL.

  • chaim pinchas yeruchim olshansky

    Braun won because Rabbi Bogomilsky was an older person who has arbitrated hundreds of DIn Torahs and the people who lost in his DIN TOrahs voted against him..

    CH is not a majority of Michichits.

    Look on the bima last night Reb AMram was lied to and was told the both Rabbis would attend.

    Were there any ROshei Yeshiva from any yeshiva there? were there any member of Tsach ( Butman etc ) were there anybody from Bais SHmuel of Kolel Yungerleit , were there anybody who didn’t wear a yechi pin there.

    Take away the bochurim who came just to watch the spectacle ( which was a 25 to 1 ration bochur to yungerman )

    You have a total of maybe 150-200 yungerleit also most BT’s who attended….

    Look closely….

    Was Rabbi GOrelik a michichist rov who speaks each week in 770 there? was Rabbi Heller there?? Abir Shababrim… ???

    Was any of the mazkirus there??

    THe answer is NO!!!!

  • Oyvey

    Basicly the masochisticn got new leader to revive the violence.

    You don’t have to listen that carefully to hear the threats he made. It is not beyond him to do so

  • i hope its not true

    I overheard some people kibbutzing, and saying. Just like Yoshke the (oiseh hoish), so the jews tell the Christians, you see what we Jews threw out, you people picked up out of the trash and made a lord out of him. So too they tried to say, what we Australians threw out, you crown heightsers, picked him up, and made a Rav out of him. I hope for everyone’s sake It’s not true. Only time will tell.

  • look deeper !

    So sad that you people are so affected by. Empty charrisma . Remember . Sheker hachein…yiras hashem hee tishalel. I guess the rebibe was a booting speaker cuz he spoke in yiddish I’m ashamed of people as shallow as you.

  • What a shame

    #5 ur rt on the mark!

    What a shame to all of you who write how charismatic and well this man spoke, did he say one positive word? Is he even trying to bring achdus and good to our community? From what I heard him say last night it seems as he is so excited to be a part of machlokes, and radicalism which we already unfortunately have enough of without him. He is such an arrogant man, who didn’t stop saying what an amazing navi he thinks He is

    What a sad state we are in

  • hold your horses

    he didn even get the contract signed yet.
    he isnt our rov till that happens!

  • Fainted from his extraordinary maamar

    OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG, OMG! This guy is great! We should pay him a billion dollars a year and it will be a bargain basement price for this man. Heck, we don’t even need the Rebbe anymore because we have R Braun!!! And the Rebbe didn’t know how to text either so now we have a true mushlem that the world has never seen the like.

  • Empire street resident

    “I come to give, but to receive even more”.

    Hold your horses sir. Until you get that handsome salary in good checks [that don’t bounce], don’t count your chickens.

  • Get the man Smicha

    Let R. Lepikofsky and whoever give him the 5 tests for smicha and 7 dayonis tests – then Shimush. It will take a month or 2, but at least he will be qualified.

  • to #7

    im glad u put that argument to rest- cuz many of us have not- and i personally know a lot of ppl who showed up just to watch the action- not bc they support in any way.

  • repeat a lie

    why repeat the mantra: he doesn’t have semicha?

    Didn’t you hear the new? ALL of the arguments being made Rabbi Osdobo, Reb Yoel, were brought up to the Zablo Beid Din. The Rabbonim listened to the arguments, then they set out to investigate the facts, and you know what their unanimous conclusion = daas torah was?

    Rabbi Braun has and had semicha! and that recently he also got dayanus.

    so who are you trying to sell the Brooklyn bridge to? you cannot accept that the psak din doesn’t assist your political agenda?

    Do you think that if you repeat the same falsehood enough times – people will begin to believe you? get a life.

  • To # 15

    Hope you are right about the bachurim outnumbering the elders. That’s EXACTLY what the REBBE always wanted. Thanks for the good
    news. Send us more of the youth. Thats what we want.

  • onlooke

    just interesting when rav braun shalita came in to 770 for hachtora“ one” person he gave a kiss to mendel hendel just interesting

  • SHOCKED!

    I am so shocked at the disrespect of you commenters. what are you doing in your life that is worthy ? do u sit on websites and pull to pieces whoever u r able? and if u r so rightous how can u even bring such disrespectful words to your mouths? and even more publicly express? u r clearly not adding anything special to the community, so until u do u dont have a right to judge someone who is trying to ! GO RABBI BRAUN!

  • Nachman

    Kinderlach, stop fighting like cats and mice. Accept the reality Rabbi Brown is our new rov. Yes I was there by the Hachtoro, the place was packed with Yungerlite Bochurim Baalei Teshuvos and Tzadikim. The drosho when was very positive strewn with a call for achdus humility and mechila for all that was done to him. Torah tells us whom we shall follow not petty TB’s. There was a clear Psak Din from a zablo. we plain folk will follow the psak din as you have seen by the large attendance by the Hachtoro (and we were alll inspired) hope the rest of you will join the wagon.

  • to comment 15

    comment 13 really applies to you! read it through properly and think for once in your life!

  • to comment 23

    you’re a little confused! Rabbi Braun already received the ksav rabbonus and he is effectively the new rov whether you like it or not and you ought to start showing him some respect because now it’s over and he is the rov and you halachically have to respect the community rov whether you voted for him or not!
    the contract which hasn’t been signed yet is just about money, his wages, not whether he gets the job!

  • Levi

    Very entertaining speech, no doubt, but not what the community needs right now. CH needs a cool hand at the wheel, a mosun umasik, not someone who will shpritz his opinions on passers-by. We are in for some interesting times ahead.