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Video: Parade Float Causes Controversy

At the Great Lag Ba’omer Parade in Crown Heights Sunday, one float in particular caught the attention of revelers for its controversial depiction of Techiyas Hameisim, with many voicing concern that it was distasteful and inappropriate for the viewing of children.

The float in question, created by Beis Chaya Mushka Girls’ School of Crown Heights, depicted a cemetery on the back of a pickup truck. When the truck passed the crowd in front of 770, two bochurim climbed out of the graves and one began waving a yellow Moshiach flag.

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  • Purim?

    Purim or Lag B’Omer? Some people think it is Purim all year round.

  • B"H

    just one question……
    why were bochurim in the truck if bais chaya mushka girls made it??

    • Naftali

      Not THAT Bad…Please!
      I Think It would have been MORE shocking if a BCM girl jumped out of a grave!…

      Yes it was very shocking and had they enacted the way it’s supposed to happen people would have REALLY freaked out. Techias Hameysim is something we ask for 3 times a day…at least that’s what i thought…

    • B.H.G

      because as a “Bais Bhaya Mushkah girl” i know that we did not make it. they switched our plans and did theyr own thing…. i have no idea what it was all about and i don’t know why they did it…

  • zack

    The float was not officially part of the parade and was asked by police to get out but refused.

  • What on earth were they thinking?

    That is nasty. I’m surprised that the stupidity of such a float got past the parade organizers. I hope the little kids didn’t get it & that the older ones ignored its offensiveness. BCM should be offering a huge apology to everyone, including the crowds.

    Brings Moshichisten to a new low, doesn’t it?

  • Gershon

    Tchiyas Hamesim should not be a foreign concept. Nothing wrong here.

  • calm down

    I think children take these things much easier than adults. They hear about tchiyas hameisim and understand it just as the video depicted. I think the only difference is that they should have had a person dressed in a long white beard, maybe in costume, so it doesnt look like a young person they recognize

    • The grim reaper?

      That would be better? The whole thing is completely insane. Figures.

  • why is this flag diffrent from the other flags?

    There were many yellow flags during the parade?
    This school no doubt has its respected mashpim and rabbonim who have no problome with this opinion-neither do many lubavitchers.
    With regard to the float it depicts techias hamesim?
    Whats the issue with that?

    • Peretz

      Unless you wonder why or don’t care why no one outside of Lubavitch takes part in the parade the way they did when the Rebbe was physically present

    • Milhouse

      Peretz, what do you mean? That nobody outside Lubavitch believes in Techiyas Hameisim?!

  • CHLEAKS.COM

    Central Yeshiva Tomchei Timimim Lubavitz of the U.S.A. (ULY 770) is responsible for bringing these Meshichistim to Crown Heights.

    The Yeshiva rakes in the cash and does not care of the Chillul Hashem and Chillul Lubavitch, terror attacks and Mesira that takes place as a result etc…v’dal.

    Always follow the money.

  • Leave it to Crownheights.info!

    They report everything, warts & all, unlike that bi9ased little blog that only posts pro-their-way-of-thinking & never is open minded or fair.

    If not for crownheights.info, people like me who don’t live in CH anymore (B”H!!!) wouldn’t know what really goes on. You keep us informed, thanks as always. Of course, some things like this cheap stunt aren’t welcome reading, but we need to face reality, unlike the wackos that do this stuff.

  • Anonymous

    you guys learn stuff, but you would like it to stay in the books ? how is tchiyas hameyssim supposed to be not offensive

  • Tsfati

    Beautiful. Kol Hakovod.

    Those who don’t believe in Tchias Hamaisim won’t get up so they won’t be offended be seeing this

    In this weeks Chitas it says ISH AL DIGLO

  • cma

    It’s funny and appropriate if you believe that’s going to happen.

  • A true friend and supporter of Chabad in Jerusalem

    I never saw anywhere that when people will come up by Tchiyas Hameisim they will start to wave funny yellow flags, one thing i do know that all the evil will be destroyed when Moshiach will come, obviously including yellow flags that only make a Chillul Hashem and Chillul Lubavitch.
    I was this year for my first time in Maron on Lag Baomer and i saw how bad those people can be

    • To true enemy

      Not as bad and insane as you who will be as YOU said destroyed. you are already a disgrace to Yiddishkeit and humanity.

    • Gedaliah Goodman Crown Heights

      First time in Meron and that’s what you got out of it? A person like you defiles such a HOLY place, as you also do to Yerushalyim. No one need fear the yetzer harah, satan, etc. only people like you. You are disgusting.

  • sbd

    are you all non-lubavitchers? All the word and message is SHAME. There is no shame, it is just a matter of asking our rabbeim if this is appropriate or not. Whats with all the blame and shame……
    does it feel good to say shame? Lets just get it straight. We’re all yidden, no need to shame and blame and make negative feelings, no reason for that at all.

  • yak

    all of you out there – chill

    its really cute and a great hamtzaah
    just quit with all that negativity and smile along!

  • just fyi

    Btw bcm is not the one that makes the float- they get bochurim to make it. Therefore a. its not so wierd that a bochur is coming out of a girl school float and b. bcm shouldnt be to blame for this

  • Yehouda

    I am “mesherist” i have learned in tsfat, and i think too that is a very bad idea.

  • Not from CH

    Personally, I think it’s a cute and funny idea. What’s so wrong with it? All they were doing was spreading the news of what will happen when Moshiach comes really. And the Moshiach flag was a bonus…If the flag hadn’t been there, it would have been a bit creepy, but since they popped out of the graves happily and waving the flag, and dancing I don’t think any harm was done. If anything it made me happy to see the spreading of Moshiach.
    Moshiach now!

  • Just AMAZING !!!

    It was interesting and just AMAZING! for me and for my children!!! I’m sure all the kids loved it!

  • Tsfati

    Look at the video . Everyone is smiling and appreciates this float.

  • Milhouse

    I don’t understand what’s supposed to be so offensive about this. I mean, i could have done without the yellow flag, but I feel the same way about all the yellow flags that were visible; why should davka this one upset people? And I feel even more strongly about the officially-endorsed “yechi”; so why isn’t that the focus of comments, instead of this float?

    I can only conclude that people are upset by the float itself, and I can’t understand why. Don’t you believe in techiyas hameisim? Don’t all our children know about it and believe in it? Come on, people, this is a fundamental belief of Judaism. How can any believing Jew have a problem with it?

    • K

      This video has gone viral in Ir Hakodesh. I never laughed so hard and I just can’t stop laughing – yasher koach!

      Seems many don’t fully “appreciate” the float:

      There are davka two tzions – side by side (this is davka!)

      Although they both experience a “techiya” – davka the guy coming from the left grave has the moshiach flag – he is the “moshiach”.

      Think about it and you will realize how hysterical the float is!

      Again, yasher koach for a great laugh!

  • Rivka

    Enough with the negative comments,You seem to forget why we celebrate Lag Be’omer
    Where is your Ahavas Yisroel?

    • Question

      Why is it whenever anyone disagrees with you crazies or dares to criticize we have no Ahavas Yisrael? Where is the AY when the Tzfatim-flag waving-Moshichisten break people’s legs, get others arrested, lie in court in the hope they get sent to jail, beat up their fellow students etc etc etc? Or is that OK for you idiots? It’s aboutr time you took off your yellow glasses and faced the truth. YOU ARE ALL SICK.

  • freeky

    Where I do like the idah of תחית המתים o fo thaink this one freeked me out and little to weird. I can’t believe at the ptaid with the rebbe this would have passed

  • Anonymous

    It’s scary how childish adults can act! The kids probably didn’t think twice about it and everyone is so concerned about them ;)

  • Anonymous

    such ruchpa people don’t come out of grave you know it very sad not to made out of a joke

  • not a meshichist

    I am not connected to the school or the tzfatim, and I think the idea and the float were fine.
    what is bothering all of you is the flag

    • Milhouse

      If what was bothering them was the flag, I would agree with them. The flag bothers me too. But there were many such flags. Why was this flag worse than the others? And worse than all the flags was the officially sanctioned “yechi”. So why the upset davka over this float? It can’t be the flag, it must be the techiyas hameisim itself. People poshut don’t believe in it. They think it’s some ruchnisdike concept.

    • awacs

      I don’t know if it’s because people don’t believe in it. I believe in schechita, but I’m not sure I’d want my children to see an animal being butchered …

    • Milhouse

      Aderaba, awacs, I think you should take your children to see it, it’s very educational. At least they should see shechita at kapores, but preferably they should also see a cow being butchered. Children should know where their meat comes from. Until recently this was a natural part of a child’s education; certainly farm kids saw it all the time, but even city kids saw live chickens being slaughtered because that was done locally. It never did them any harm, and nobody thought there was any reason to shelter them from it. Now meat comes in shrink-wrapped packages in the supermarket, and we’re alienated from its source.

  • Lighten up

    Hilarious!! And for all those nay Sayers I bet ur kids are watching vidios way more scary then that!!
    Well done for originality and making me laugh!

  • People

    From reading the comments people seem very foolish. The controversy isn’t about teaching kids techias ha’maisim or whether or not we believe in it, it’s about the fact that acting it out infront of kids for some it can give nightmares or picturing death related matters in their head, which it doesn’t belong in. Especially the way in was done here which seemed to be a mock out of something we hold so dearly. And why are they associated a moshiach flag with it?! Techias ha’maisim is a lot more important then a time to advertise you political agenda!

    • is the ohel better for kids

      is it ok taking little kids to a cemetery and telling them this is where the Rebbe is now?
      I’m OOT, & when I take my kids to the ohel, I always wonder what they’re thinking. this is the Rebbe u told me about? a cemetery? where is he, in the ground?
      it’s not so poshut kids running around the ohel, and before gimmel tammuz, kids were rarely seen at the ohel,and funerals
      to be clear, i’ve always taken my kids to the ohel, but it’s with much trepidation about their ability to accept the message the proper way

    • Milhouse

      Death is part of life. Don’t you take kids to family levayos, to famly graves, or to the Ohel?

      Until very recently kids knew all about death, because from a very early age they had friends who died, and they knew that they too were at risk for some childhood illness that could carry them off. They said every night והאר עיני פן אישן המות, or if they weren’t Jewish they said “and if I die before I wake…”. And they made up macabre songs that showed this awareness. “Do you ever think as a hearse goes by, that you may be the next to die?”. ” Here comes a chopper to chop off your head.” “He went to bed and bumped his head and couldn’t get up in the morning.” Or read the Grimms’ fairy tales. This is the natural way for children to deal with death — matter-of-factly, not by pretending it doesn’t exist. And as religious people (whether Jewish or not) with a firm belief that it’s not permanent.

  • People

    Weather you guys agree with it or not, I’ll bet gold they would never have done it if the rebbe was there be’gashmius! (I think that proves good and well how disrespectful it was!)

    • MIKELANGELO

      That was exactly my thinking. Techias hameisim in itself is a good topic to be aware of as it brings another incentive to the yearning for Moshiach, but bringing a replica of a grave to an event for children, is distasteful, insensitive and foolish. Surely they could have found another way to represent the idea of techias hameisim.

    • Milhouse

      How are you so sure? You are just projecting your own insecurities and fears onto them. I’m sure they would have done it then too, and just the same — only then there wouldn’t have been a problem with the flag either, because at that time it was perfectly reasonable to expect the Rebbe to be Moshiach, and we all expected that to happen.

  • To #3

    So if the girls made the float why did the Bochrim mix in?? The girls deserve a medal!!
    I found the idea not so bad but atleast he shouldve worn a hat, beard & Kapote

  • dovid

    im not sure if a should laugh or cry…on one had its funny on the other hand if this is all these guys have for toras chasidus is sad….chabad chasidus has so much depth and tuchen this group empty and vain. r”l

  • Sholom

    Techiyas Hamesim is a very real concept.

    To say it in a story when Shimon the melamed came to the Alter Rebbe the Alter Rebbe asked him how does he explain the possuk that Yitzchok trembled when Esauv entered.

    When Shimon replied he explains it according to the first explanation of Rashi and not the 2nd one the gehinom opened up under Esauv, the Alter Rebbe then told him when someone says he is a melamed from… but in reality is teaching children apikursis etc….

    • Rabbi Shmaryahu of Sydney

      Well said. The float looked nice. “Daas Balei Batim” can’t handle T’chias HaMeisim as a reality. They claim T’chias HaMeisim “as a reality” freaks out the minds of children, when in reality it freaks out their own minds.
      Limud HaChassidus would do them justice if it’s coupled with Avoidas HaTfillo.
      But as “Balei Batim”, they might hear this advice as “Leitzonus”. Sad, because it’s the advice of the Rebbe Rashab.

    • Ezra

      Too bad this website doesn’t have a system for upvoting or downvoting comments… this one really hit the mark.

      (And what you said applies double to the leitzanim upthread who think that an ikkar of emunah is good for nothing more than a laugh.)

    • Milhouse

      Very well said. That story says it all. Those who don’t want to “frighten” children with stories of gehennom must be suspected of apikorsus. Just as here, I think it’s likely that most of those who object to this float don’t believe in techiyas hameisim.

    • Milhouse

      Oops, that was a reply to “Sholom”, who brought up the story of Shimon Hakofer y”sh. I think those who object to this float, and claim that it frightens children, etc, are in the same boat as that Shimon.

      (The yellow flag is a different matter; I object to that too, but no more or less than I do to all the yellow flags.)

    • awacs

      ‘Shimon Hakofer y”sh’

      Really? You’d say that about another Jew?

      If Shimon had died without children, his brother would be obligated to perform Yibum, so that his name *wouldn’t* be erased from Israel …

    • Milhouse

      Yes, we say y”sh about Jews. There is a letter from the frierdiker Rebbe (the long one against “Torah Im Derech Eretz”) in which he calls Mendelson y”sh.

    • K

      When askanim arrived at the home of HaGaon HaRav Aaron Yehuda Leib Shteinman Shlita on erev Shabbos 17 Elul 5773, they were more than a bit surprised to hear the gadol hador speak out in such a harsh tone – one far from his day-to-day gentle mannerisms.

      The askanim painted a bleak picture regarding today’s financial realities, there result of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s gezeiros against the chareidi tzibur. Rav Shteinman stated no less than three times “יימח שמו” regarding Lapid.

      Following his shiur on motzei Shabbos the eve of 26 Elul, Rav Sheinman explained we are experiencing the birth pangs of Moshiach which are similar to labor pains and as the birth draws nearer, the pain becomes increasingly intense. He spoke of the harsh gezeiros that precede Moshiach.

      The gadol hador concluded “הקב”ה יעזור שנגיע כבר לגאולה, תכלה שנה וקללותיה” and made yet another harsh reference to Lapid, stating “May Hashem assist so that which the rosha Lapid yemach shemo plans will not come to fruition.”

      – See more at: http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/183880/maran-rav-shteinman-shlita-lapid-yemach-shemo.html#sthash.RKX96dQR.dpuf

    • Rabbi Shmaryahu of Sydney

      Why the oops? Who mentioned anything about a yellow flag?

    • Milhouse

      Rabbi Shmaryahu of Sydney wrote:

      Why the oops?

      The oops was because that comment was meant to be a reply to a previous comment, so it didn’t supply the context. But the reply system seems to be broken, so it appeared as an independent comment on the original article, and thus made no sense. “Very well said. That story says it all” is meaningless without knowing what was said, or which story!

      Who mentioned anything about a yellow flag?

      Most of those complaining, that’s who.

  • ch resident

    There is nothing wrong with the concept of techiyas hamaisim just that whoever took the video should have also captured a picture on the side that says an end to death

  • hey kids

    I don’t getit!

    What is wrong with making Techias Hameisim a reality!
    Making iy look real.
    Aren’t you waiting for your beloved great/grand parents to come back?
    Why is it wrong………..?
    Please explain!

  • If it was beis rivka, would CH.info have as much of an issue with it?????

    or is it the flag thats getting you??

  • WHY IS EVERYONE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL?

    THEY MADE A WONDERFUL FLOAT JUST LIKE BAIS RIVKAS, JUST LIKE BNOS MENACHEM, JUST LIKE OHELEI TORAH’S, WHY ARE THEY GETTING CRITICIZED? THE SCHOOL IS WEIRD AND ALL BUT YOU KNOW THAT GIRLS FROM BAIS CHAYA MUSHKA WORKED VERY HARD ON IT AND IT DOESNT MATTER IF YOU HAVE NOTHING NICE TO SAY DONT SAY ANYTHING. MY MOUTH WAS OPEN WHEN I READ THESE COMMENTS!!! THEY ARE SO RUDE AND INSULTING I CANT UNDERSTAND. THEY WORKED HARD, IT WAS CREEPY AND ALL BUT U KNOW WHAT? PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN TO GET OVER IT I AM 12 I WAS BY THE GREAT PARADE AND I DIDNT EVEN SEE IT. I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG UNTIL PEOPLE STARTED WRITING DISGUSTING COMMENTS.

    • an actual b.c.m. girl

      thank you! well said! only we did NOT make these floats…….

  • Normal Chabad guy

    I don’t see why you people care so much about all these stupid politics , we must stop this madness and love each other so let’s bring moshiach together . Like seriously stop acting like little kids and grow up !!!!!!

  • Esty B

    Why do we have to be so hard on everyone these days? It was a silly idea, people maybe didn’t react how they hoped…but have some patience. The students worked hard, they had an idea and expressed it…we should be able to share with them what’s upsetting about it and what parts were creative without being mean. No need to call names and insult young students.

  • Chelm

    The people who think it’s A-OK are clearly deranged. I pity you all, I really do, but I wish you’d just crawl back into your caves, smoke your funny cigarettes & bang your tambourines and stop making a chilul Hashem at every opportunity.

    • Chelm suits you

      Every child I saw and asked liked it VERY much. This is a parade for CHILDREN get that into your cave. Just as the Rebbe said, “The PARENTS and TEACHERS are the problem NOT the children. Look at the comments from adults.

  • Very Original

    There’s nothing wrong with it.
    AHAVAS YISROEL – STOP BEING SO JUDGEMENTAL!!
    Each school tries to think of an original idea that wasn’t yet done in the other floats. We do daven for and teach about techias hameisim. NONE of us know exactly how it will happen. Their float was GREAT to bring about the concept in a ‘light’ manner.
    I don’t think anyone’s kids were scared. Never played with a jack ‘n the box – when you turn the handle enough times, the clown pops out. Kids love it!
    Thank you for the video. We don’t live in CH, and missed the detail while watching the parade live.

  • Ask the Barber and Minkowitz kids

    Is tchiyas hameisim a daily reality for you? Do you guys see red because there’s a yellow flag? Do you guys even believe in the one impersonal word emblazoned on said yellow flag???
    A cheshbon nefesh is in order. The Rebbe gave it over to us. Someone came up with a flag idea. What’s so terrible? The Israeli “hikonu” signs were yellow, and the flag is a follow-up. What exactly is your issue with it? The flag or the individuals? Or is it the Rebbe cholilo?
    Israeli manners may need polishing. Address the true issues. We didn’t decide to go all out with Moshiach- the Rebbe decided for us.
    May we have the maturity to dig inside and figure out why a float irked so many people when it depicted one of the 13 Ani Maamins of the Rambam that we are all mechuyov to believe in/
    Achdus of Chassidim will bring Moshiach.

  • IT WAS A BAD IDEA

    More than anything it is now on misnagdim websites and because it was touted at the main Chabad parade it only proves that “Chabad is a cult” as they like to claim.

    Of course it is OK in concept but such a disturbing float. Why not before Gimel Tamuz? Why didn’t they have such floats then? They had Moshiach floats and they wanted techiyas hamaisim then no less, surely.

  • You don't get it!

    This isn’t about the inyan of Techiyas Hameisim. It’s about wackos hijacking a nice parade to promote their sick agenda & cause trouble (as they do every year) & potentially scaring the living daylights out of kids & repulsing adults.

    R”L there are many yesomim in Crown Heights – some are very young. They know their mommies/tatties are “in the ground” & they now may imagine they will jump up waving a freaky flag. Death isn’t funny or cute. It is tragic & for youngsters, very scary, & Techiyas Hameisim deserves to be dealt with in a sensitive manner, not made into a freak show by insensitive, clueless idiots.

    • Milhouse

      Their parents will come out of their graves, and very soon. No, I don’t expect they’ll be waving flags, but so what? How does the flag make it scary for the kids? Since when are flags scary?

      The problem is simple: YOU don’t really believe that these kids’ parents are ever going to walk again.

      You say techiyas hameisim needs to be “dealt with in a senstiive manner”. For crying out loud, why? Why should any sensitivity be needed for such a wonderful topic, unless you don’t really expect it ever to happen, and that’s what you want to be sensitive about, you don’t want to create expectations that you think are false. Hashem yishmereinu from such heresy.

  • CR

    Play graves replete with matzeivos do not stand for anything appropriate. The celebration of death depicted here would be more appropriate for that pagan festival that occurs in late autumn. Indeed, this is exactly what they do. Our derech, which admonishes us “You shall choose life” and “do not travel in their ways”, has no quarter for this shtus.

    • Milhouse

      What celebration of death? It’s a celebration of life! It’s the people in the grave coming back to life, as will really happen, very soon. Or don’t you believe that? Is that the problem?

    • Milhouse

      In other words, you’re an apikores. So what are you doing here? And what right do you have to express an opinion on a Jewish event, if you’re not a believing Jew?

    • @Milhouse

      To answer your two questions together is simple and easy because I can.

    • CR

      Apparently Milhouse’s favorite parade float was the strawman. Either you are unaware of the pagan celebration that the rest of the world celebrates on October 31 or you are being intentionally obtuse. Suffice to say that float looks very similar to the lawn decorations that some of my neighbors put out around that time. It is a derech of Avodah Zarah. Poshut! If you remain in denial of this I have to assume you are either a Min or an Apikoros yourself.

  • Mendel

    Beautiful idea, great concept and really cute presentation. Only a shame that they people behind it belong to the wrong affiliation.

    • Milhouse

      Kabel es ho’emes mimi she’amoro. Give credit where credit is due. I’m no fan of theirs, to say the least, but this time they did well. I wish they’d omitted the flag, but maybe that would be too much to expect.

  • Child of a Shliach

    Many of you have been living in Crown Heights far too long. Get out into the world where Chabad Lubavitch is actually marching forward towards Moshiach. Where achdus and Ahavas Yisrael are far more important than who says what and who believes in who.The Rebbe told us years ago – Open Your Eyes!

    • to child

      Came back recently to Crown Heights from 2 years Shlichut out there in the world. The only place I saw them marching towards is their concept of Moshiach, the BANK. CHILD run for your life.

  • other things that scare children

    Some children are scared of clowns. Should they stop those too?
    Why wasn’t he wearing a kittel?

    • Milhouse

      I believe Sefer Chassidim says they will come back in their normal clothes, whatever they used to wear.

  • WHAT WOULD PEOPLE DO WITH OUT LOSHEN HARA??

    isn’t life just so exciting when we speak loshen hara? we can turn anything in to some thing ugly. so we can talk negatively about another, we are just happier that way. What would Crownheights.info post if this didn’t happen?!! the world would end! crowheights.info would have nothing to post!! why don’t we stop talking loshen harah and stop getting hiked up about this loshen harah and lets go do something good. and if we are doing something good lets go do more good. the loshen harah is completely unnecessary. and if it is necessary because it makes life more exciting lets find something good to make life exciting!
    lets bring moshiach so that we don’t have to act out this things, that will make fights, and lets have the real thing! that will make us all happy :) MOSHIACH NOW!

  • K

    Let me paraphrase something that applies:

    When HUNDREDS of Rabbonim, Askonim etc cannot control action of hooligans – can we trust their kashrus?

    This float PROVED exactly what the OFFICAL position of Chabad is, just as the official position of Satmar was exposed when a Mitzva-mobile was attacked without any protest from Satmar Rabbonim or Rosh Yeshiva.

    Can you not see the reflection?!

    But full credit is due – this float made hundreds of Lakewooders fall out of their chairs laughing. It brought simcha to Ir Hakodesh – a great zchus, tizku l’mitzvos!

    • To K from Gedaliah Goodman C.H.

      Glad they liked it. We here in Crown Heights IR HAKODESH did not just like it, we LOVED it. Look at the video. Everyone loved it. Yes, a GREAT zchus. We are proud to have the full credit and it stands us Head and Shoulders above the rest of Klall Yisroel, B”H.

    • Ezra

      If “hundreds of Lakewooders fall out of their chairs laughing” at techiyas hameisim, then far from an “ir hakodesh” (a term which belongs to Yerushalayim and nowhere else – apparently you’re no different than the Reformers for whom Berlin was their Jerusalem), that city is an ir hanidachas.

      Fortunately, though, כך עונשו של בדאי, that nothing he says can be believed. In previous threads you’ve shown yourself to be a בדאי, and your testimony is worthless; at best it tells us what a menuval and apikoros you and your friends are.

    • K

      Just as “כי שם ציווה ה’ את הברכה” is a term that belongs to Eretz Yisroel.

      I now quote you: “apparently you’re no different than the Reformers for whom Berlin was their Jerusalem”.

    • K

      For those who want to know:
      כי שם ציווה ה’ את הברכה is a quote from
      תהילים קל”ג, ג

    • Kop Mentch

      K, it was the REBBE himself who said Kan Tziva on CH – not Erzra or some other nobody. If you knew that, how dare you!

    • Gedaliah

      K seems to be saying to Ezra that he is like the pot calling the kettle black.

  • response to # - 75. You don't get it! -

    I’m surprised you don’t know about how many of these children see things much more shocking on TV & home videos

  • Mendy Hecht

    Last I checked, Techiyas Hameisim occurs at Har HaZeisim, not in front 770–where, if the Rebbe is still alive, he has no need to climb out of a grave in the first place. This was nothing more than political theater.

  • mom

    A number of years ago my kids made a float for a contest in a local parade. Shiur alef down to lower grades. All their own planning and making. They put wheels on a pallet, covered i to look like grass covered earth. Then the spent a lot of time fashioning the graves and people getting up from playdo. The background was a huge cottonball cloud wiyh the Beis Hamikdosh coming down and the words Techias Hamesim. Kids are normal. Parents grow up either to be oversensitive or over political. Those are worse messages to pass to kids. I feel bad for the Yiddishe kid who has been weakened to the point that the idea of techias hamesim would upset him.