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Chabad Rabbi Menachem Shemtov assaulted in D.C. by LYFT driver

Monroe has a women problem. What will they do Sunday show up to protest

Free Malky. Truck circulating Monroe highlighting Berkowitz family

Here a thought for the day. Where is the UN condemning killing of many Arabs

No suprise here. UN helping Hamas

Middle of london. Jewish man attacked

Flatbush girl having issues with instagram

Please. Text instagram and ask why they are not protecting women 

especially Jewish women 

she will be back soon we hope and we will follow this closely. 

 

 

RABBI Dovid Shochet. OBM.

Leading chabad rabbi

from the old school 

not many left 

real rabbi

Criminal activity in Monroe soon to be exposed

Help this Monroe woman get her get

As true as it gets NO GET PUN

ראו.  No GET 

Help this chasidish woman from Monroe get her get Satmar ?

Hamaspik is government funded If they ignore

You can’t make this up about 770 tunnels

People are being asked all over nyc in other Jewish communities all about the tunnels 

 

did you dig a tunnel was asked by people at a tefillin  stand 

Please help if you are aware of more victims

Crisis in Jewish divorce world. Unshackle the women who want out

Crisis in the Jewish world.   

Son who killed parents Now charged. Changed his meds and was fired

Help a Monroe woman get her GET

Help another woman 

Missing in Boro park. Have you seen him.

Isssing inn 

Rabbi benny Kalmanson who lost a son who fell saving hundreds

Rabbi Benny Kalmanson, one of the heads of the Otniel Yeshiva, joined a group of bereaved families and families of hostages to Be’eri, where his son, Elhanan (https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/378101), fell while fighting bravely with his brother and nephew to save the residents of the kibbutz who were under fire on October 7th.
Arutz Sheva-Israel National News spoke to Rabbi Kalmanson about his feelings during the visit, which was held as part of the initiative to sign the "Bereshit Treaty."

“The feeling,” says Rabbi Kalmanson, "was both painful and uplifting because of what they did here. It was also happy knowing what we are doing here now, which I hope will amend the Israeli reality a bit, or at least give an opening for some kind of improvement."
On the emotions expressed by kibbutz residents, as well as residents of other kibbutzim, that residents of Judea and Samaria came on their own initiative to save them, and some even paid for it with their lives, Rabbi Kalmanson says that he believes that this is not relevant at all and he did not think about it until several days later when it was brought up before the family as if it was a surprising incident.
"The truth is that we didn't think about this and I don't think we need to think about it either. The Jewish people have already proven that in difficult times they are beyond such things. Let’s just leave this aside. It's completely unnecessary," adds Rabbi Kalmanson.
As for his feeling of pain in view of the rescue operation led by his two sons, an operation that resulted in the rescue of over a hundred residents of the kibbutz, Rabbi Kalmanson says that he is "in pain, but proud. We saw a baby born after he saved a woman in the forty-first week of her pregnancy. It makes us very happy, and she has become like our granddaughter." However, Rabbi Kalmanson believes that their family story is nothing more than another routine Israeli story, that only gained publicity because it is about two brothers and a nephew.
"There are countless stories like this. Leave our private story aside. We should be excited about our young generation," he says, and referring to the ability to preserve unity even in the days after the war, Rabbi Kalmanson expresses hope that this will indeed continue, although we cannot be sure. "We will try. I am optimistic. We do this first of all by changing the discourse and the manner in which the discourse is conducted, creating ways to solve problems and disputes that have always existed and always will be, and knowing how to value and respect each person and their beliefs. We will continue to argue about many issues, but we will never
argue about human beings.”

Tragedy in Gaza. We wont be broken.

Frum women fighting a deeply flawed system. More to come

Divorce rages on the Jewish community 

narcissistic people

 families. Hellbent on destroyone good people.   

A system totally broken 

Rabbis. Caring about buddy buddy Shul friends and not the families 

much will be exposed.    

Kudos to Flatbush girl.

21 incredible souls fell. In battle protecting the Jewish people

Tragic day in Gaza. Over 15 soldiers killed. BDE

There are no words 

there are so many families hurt and devastated 

fathers no longer coming home to their children 

sons  brothers.    

 

No words.  No words.  No words 

these souls go right to their rightful place by the chair of G-D

 

 

Elon musk visits concentration camp with Ben shapiro

Italy deals with pro hamas protesters

Esthy got a get

Crazy impersonator. Raises money is a cult member. Be careful

Boro park tragedy. Son stabs parents after long video rant which he posted

Lakewood scandal is so deep. And where are the rabbis to help. They don’t care they want the beis din money

Chabad 770 disaster continues. Meshechits rule

Satmar does a wonderful thing. A pre shabbos nice story

Rabbi Horowitz says turn in the perveerts

Why do Rabbis not demand the get before getting involved

770 tunnels. Chabad needs to send all students on visas back home.

Flatbush girl getting results.

Sad day. May there memories be a blessing for all

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They may have owned the building, but they couldn’t come in’

Among the Meshichists, the students from the Safed yeshiva – the “Tzfatim” – stood out as the most radical believers and for attempts to intimidate and harass their opponents.

During prayers and gatherings, they began to place Schneerson’s empty chair in the sanctuary to symbolize his continued presence. They also began to place his lectern in its old place during gatherings, as if setting it up for an address Schneerson was to give. At the time, these small acts weren’t particularly controversial. “It wasn’t a belief that he was physically sitting in the chair,” Sam recalled. “It was a symbolic thing.”

But trouble was brewing. Within a few years, the Meshichists, led by the Tzfatim, began to chant or sing “yechi” at gatherings. The anti-Meshichists, led by the Detroitniks, would try to silence them. Soon, fistfights began to break out.

“There were always clashes,” Lerner said. “There was screaming and shouting, sometimes physical altercations. I remember somebody’s beard getting yanked, glasses being broken.”

Sam remembers similar incidents of rising tension as both groups tried to assert their dominance over the space. “There was physical abuse, straight up fistfights. The cops came down a few times. But it wasn’t just us. The antis had the Detroitniks.”

Conflict erupted over other issues.

Two major umbrella organizations, Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, which oversees all educational and outreach activities, and Agudas Chassidei Chabad, the organization for the worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch movement, were led by the anti-Meshichists Yehuda Krinsky and Abraham Shemtov. Commonly referred to as “Merkos” and “Aguch”, the organizations jointly represented the movement’s establishment, or what some referred to jokingly as “Chabad Incorporated”. They were also the legal owners of the 770 complex – which included the synagogue, the yeshiva, the communal library, Schneerson’s former study and various communal offices and other spaces.

When Aguch decided to publish some of Schneerson’s private notes, the Tzfatim vehemently opposed it, Sam said. “We, the Tzfatim, would find the publications and dispose of them in shaimos” – the disposal method for sacred writings – “because we argued no one was allowed to read the rebbe’s private writings.” When prayer groups were started by Aguch in what had been Schneerson’s private rooms, the Tzfatim, once again, were outraged, which led to further harassment and violence. So, while Aguch and Merkos owned the complex, “we were the guys sitting in 770 and controlling it”, Sam said.

As the Tzfatim grew bolder, Krinsky and Shemtov, having legal ownership of 770, grew alarmed and tried to tamp down the Tzfatim’s growing dominance. But the Tzfatim were not without their own allies. The day-to-day caretakers at 770 were the gabbaim, or wardens, who leaned toward the Meshichists. Krinsky and Shemtov became the Tzfatim’s primary antagonists.

“When Krinsky or Shemtov would enter 770 we would attack them, verbally and physically,” Sam recalled. “We didn’t want them in 770. And then the Detroitniks would retaliate. Either way, it was the students who ran 770. Not Krinsky, not Shemtov, no one. They may have owned the building, but they couldn’t step into the main shul if the students didn’t want them there.”

A significant flashpoint centered around control of literature publication. For decades, Kehos, the movement’s main publishing arm, issued most of Chabad’s literature, including writings by previous leaders as well as prayer books and other religious works. But Kehos, too, was affiliated with the anti-Meshichists. According to Lerner: “The Meshichists needed the Kehos literature, but any mention of the rebbe had that long posthumous epitaph: ‘May the memory of the righteous and holy be blessed.’ So the Tzfatim would either tear the page out or put a sticker over it. They had to use the literature published by the other side, but they’d edit it, deface it, to fit their own reality.”

The Chabad-Lubavitch building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on 7 April 2020 in New York.Photograph: Mark Lennihan/AP

One notable incident in 1999 involved the defacing of a plaque that marked the cornerstone in the shul at 770. The plaque contained the epitaph “may his holy memory be blessed”, typically reserved for the deceased. In the middle of the night, two Tzfati students defaced the plaque by scratching out the offending phrase. After administrators tried to restore it, it was defaced again.

By the late 90s, the Tzfatim had achieved substantial control over 770, and the Detroitniks had, for all intents and purposes, conceded their territory. By the early 2000s, the Tzfatim grew more and more radical and their denial of the rebbe’s death grew increasingly literal, and they developed elaborate sets of rituals around the invisible rebbe.

One of the most emblematic Tzfati rituals was the creation of the “shvil”, which involved parting a crowd as if to make way for the rebbe to pass through. To the Tzfatim, the rebbe’s presence was so profound that it could almost be felt, even if unseen.

Other practices included setting up a lectern and microphone as if Schneerson were about to deliver a live talk. A recording of one of Schneerson’s past addresses would then be played, creating the illusion of a live speech.

During some gatherings, the Tzfatim began to file past the rebbe’s chair as if to receive wine from his goblet. Another practice was an imitation of Schneerson handing out dollars for recipients to give to charity, which he had done regularly during his lifetime – though even many Tzfatim thought this was going too far.

These actions created a bewildering atmosphere for those who did not share the Tzfatim’s fervor for Meshichism. It also created a sense of chaos for Crown Heights residents – even for those who were themselves Meshichist but more moderate in their views.

As Lerner put it: “Crown Heights Incorporated has leadership and hierarchy. Of course, there are conflicts, but they’re usually settled within a framework. With the Tzfatim, it was just so anarchic.”

By 2004, unable to control the Tzfatim’s radical takeover of 770, Krinsky and Shemtov decided to take legal action to regain control of the premises, filing suit against the wardens of the synagogue – the gabbaim – who they saw as giving the Tzfatim broad latitude to do as they pleased. Subsequently, the litigation dragged on with multiple appeals, and as of this writing, a final ruling is still pending.

‘The tunnels are actually a no-brainer’

Despite the tension and occasional flareups of violence, 770 remained a cherished site and a focal point for the global Chabad community. It is still well attended, especially during holidays and other important occasions, and is often immensely overcrowded. On Rosh Hashanah, the sanctuary is so full that the brief walk to the doorway for a bathroom break is a 20-minute adventure that requires climbing over tables and benches, squeezing through tightly packed throngs, and praying that your jacket buttons don’t come off in the process. The need to expand the synagogue has been widely recognized.

What’s more, expansion plans had already been drawn up under Schneerson’s direction during the 80s.

According to Yossi Newfield, a writer and journalist who has frequently written about Chabad’s messianic doctrines, Schneerson saw expanding the shul to be of messianic import. “This is the shul of Moshiach,

Guardian continued. 770 leadership failed

When Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson assumed the leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in 1951, he delivered a seminal public address, which set the movement’s guiding principle for the next seven decades: “We are the last generation. It is our job to bring Moshiach” – the Hebrew term for the Messiah.

In the years that followed, Chabad Hasidim were animated by various initiatives they were tasked with by Schneerson, but none more so than the notion that the Messiah was everything. It was time. We must bring him. He must come. He will come. And it will be in our lifetime.

His followers heard something else too: their leader, in their view, was declaring himself the Messiah. What exactly he said and what he meant and how he meant it would be hotly debated over the years, but in a broad sense, Chabad Messianism became established Chabad doctrine.

In 1991, Schneerson delivered an address to his followers that triggered a maelstrom within Chabad: “I have done everything I can to bring Moshiach, but we are still in exile,” he said. “Now I hand it over to you. You must do everything you can.”

His words sent shockwaves through the Chabad world. Committees began to form. The rebbe had tasked them with the ultimate monumental task.

Except: they knew who the Messiah was – it was Schneerson himself. What many Chabad Hasidim heard, therefore, was a command to prepare the world for the rebbe to reveal himself.

During the ten months that followed, the Chabad community went into a frenzy. The feeling was that the Messiah’s arrival was now imminent. This was not a drill.

There were various initiatives to collect signatures declaring Schneerson the Messiah. When told about the signatures, he thanked those involved for their efforts. Did he approve? Many Chabad followers thought it obvious that he did.

Then, in March of 1992, Schneerson had a stroke and lost his ability to speak. His illness deteriorating steadily, the mood in Chabad became desperate: the rebbe couldn’t die. He was Moshiach.

A refrain known as the “yechi”, chanted or sung each time Schneerson appeared in public, came to symbolize the messianic fervor, and the belief that the rebbe could not die: “Long live our master, our teacher, our rabbi, the king Messiah, forever and ever!”

Schneerson could no longer speak, but he would nod and encourage the singing.

In June of 1994, Schneerson died.

A split in Chabad: the Meshichists and anti-Meshichists

As news of the rebbe’s death spread, erratic scenes began to play out in various Chabad communities across the world. While some people wept, others sang and danced, seeing Schneerson’s death as the final climactic twist before he reappeared as the Messiah.

The movement as a whole, however, entered a period of crisis. A number of top Chabad rabbis met to decide whether chanting “yechi” was still appropriate. Unable to reach a consensus, it was left to individuals and communities to decide for themselves.

David Lerner, who grew up Chabad in Detroit, was a child when Schneerson died, but he remembers a sense of disorientation within the community. “I remember going to the shul, and we were like: ‘What should we do now?’ Because nobody in Lubavitch really prepared for it, it seemed.”

A group of men pray during a ceremony honoring Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in Tel Aviv, Israel on 21 June 2004. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP

Debates soon broke out in various Chabad communities about how to relate to Schneerson’s death. Two prominent Chabad yeshivas, those of Safed, Israel, and Detroit, Michigan, came to symbolize two opposing viewpoints: the Meshichists and anti-Meshichists. The Meshichists continued to chant “yechi” and refer to Schneerson publicly as “the king Messiah”. The anti-Meshichists accepted that Schneerson was now deceased – even if in some vague, unarticulated sense they still believed he was the Messiah.

Sam, a former Chabad Hasid who studied at the Safed yeshiva during that period but asked to be identified only by his first name, recalled how some of the Tzfati students, seeking to maintain their fervent messianic

The guardian. Exposes chabads failure to control the inmates

Last week, after underground tunnels were discovered near the Chabad-Lubavitch synagogue in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood and attempts by synagogue officials to perform repairs were prevented by a group of yeshiva students, a mini-riot broke out after police showed up to restore order. A group of rowdy yeshiva students was seen smashing down a wall at the most cherished site of the Chabad movement.

The incident in New York made headlines and primetime TV news from Reykjavík to Mumbai and beyond. Antisemitic conspiracy theories on the internet went into overdrive, alleging the tunnels were used for everything from child sexual abuse to secret animal sacrifices. Even well-meaning observers wondered: what in God’s name was going on there?

 

The real story emerged in bits and pieces. The incident involved an unauthorized and haphazard attempt by a group of students to expand the main Chabad synagogue, commonly referred to as “770”, for its address at 770 Eastern Parkway. The tunnels were access points to an area the students had been excavating.

In subsequent statements, synagogue officials referred to the students as “young agitators” and “extremists”. Several well-placed sources within the Crown Heights Chabad community, however, have identified the tunnel-diggers as having a more distinct identity: the “Tzfatim” .

Police stand at the entrance of the tunnel in the Chabad synagogue in Brooklyn. Photograph: Yossi Newfield/The Guardian

The Tzfatim, who have a long reputation for creating disturbances, are, in the parlance of Chabad factionalism, “extreme Meshichists”. Meshichists – or Messianists – are Chabad Hasidim who believe that their late leader, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, is the Messiah, and despite his death in 1994, is still meant to reappear.

“Tzfatim” (literally, those of Tzfat – the city of Safed, in Israel – where many of the students had attended yeshiva previously, and then came to spend a period of study in Crown Heights) are perceived to be, even by Meshichist standards, unusually fervent in their beliefs and have been involved in numerous incidents of violence and mayhem for nearly three decades.

The underground excavations, it now appears, are the latest in a long string of incidents of anarchy and lawlessness by this group.

The 90s messiah

The seeds of Chabad messianism were planted decades before the Tzfatim showed up on the scene.

770. Disgrace is continued. Mishichists are the new chabad majority

Help this woman get her get.

Banned from 770. Inmates running the asylum

Do you know the stories circulating the internet. About child trafficking and the drug use   Around CH is scary.   

Lubavitch wakes up. Very very late Disgrace

  Major issues still exist.   

Wondering where they have been all these years. 

Homeland security needs to send the Israeli meshechists back to  Israel 

Rating a beis din based on fairness. For women.

Beis din based on fairness.  

 

Chabad is it a franchise or is just being misled

Chasing a get refuser.

Chasing a get refuser

Sex offender. Please check out rabbi Horowitz warning

Flatbush girl. Getting results.

Flatbush girl is on the mark. Exposing and pressure.