Here's the story and some of the pictures from Shmais
" 5 shluchim (and kids!) joined together from 3 different countries, some traveling as long as five hours to join the farbrengen.
Shluchim Rabbi Alexander Namdar and Rabbi Michoel Danow from Gothenberg Sweden, Rabbi Chaim Greisman from Stockholm Sweden, Rabbi Shaul Wilhelm from Oslo Norway, and Rabbi Yitzi Loewnthal from Copenhagen Denmark, participated.R' Yehudah Goldman, a local Lubavitcher, also participated. Rabbi Binyomin Wolf, in Finland, unable to find a flight, participated by the telephone the whole night.
The Farbrengen was held at Rabbi Michoel Danow's house.
The farbrengen started with stories and chips for the children, and then went on throughout the night. @ 5:00 am, a goral was made amongst the participants and Scandinavian Shluchim, for a ticket to travel to the Rebbe, to be at the Ohel over Shabbos, for Chof Hey Adar. The winner was R' Yehudah Goldman. "
If you see 5 people sitting together, telling stories, and having too much to drink, Gevalt are you far, far away. What you should see is 5 people who could've made an easy life for themselves close to home, instead sitting together in SCANDINAVIA, living on Mesiras Nefesh, only to bring Yidden closer to Yiddishkeit and Chassidus. They are struggling and toiling to raise Chassidishe, erliche Kinderlach, something they seem to be succeeding at. The Chasidishe Ahavah that they show for one another is what the Alter Rebbe had in mind when he was Meyased Chassidus Chabad, and is what the Rebbe Rashab had in mind when he was Meyased Tomchei Tmimim.
הלואי וזכיתי
Looks like my house on purim.....just missing about 200 people......
ReplyDeleteSo you are able to focus on the positive without one bad word about the 'others'.
ReplyDeleteCute post.
tziggy, good job! this is the genre of post that makes the website worthwhile...and is the best antedote defensive/offensive to purify the velt from detractors of kedusha....vlm is speechless and really has no choice but ti contemplate the power of the post, lubavitcher chassidim and the rebbe......
ReplyDeletebeautiful! But Billy goat, you are not going to see much debate on this. Can we have a happy medium? Please.
ReplyDeleteOy, now I need to worry about happy mediums too?
ReplyDeleteGood post, thoroughly enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteIt's no problem when there isn't debate.
I understand there's chabad.org for inspiration, but every once in a while a little relief is a breath of fresh air.
Notice how without controversy there's little to write about?
ReplyDeletetziggele, I've got a relative who once was a modern orthodox type, got soft boiled in eretz yisroel into a yeshivish mold..he now has pictures of shach and 'holds' by his new derech....he is a good kid but very ignorant of the big picture even within his own 'group'. and of course he has at the very least ambivalence toward chabad...at one time not wanting to eat lubaivtch fleish, etc....why don't you start writing a book using this website as a collection ground forum to tell the real story about shach and chronical how he attempted to ridicule lubavitch...this would create a constructive vehicle for your emotions that could benefit some young impressionable kids....
ReplyDeletewhat do you think?
Tell your nephew that it's really not becoming to worship dead gedolim. Let him pick one of heintiger gedolim from the Moetzes, such as The Novominsker, etc.
ReplyDeletewell well, nice post mate. real nice. shluchim are the most inspiring of all ppl.they are good, real ppl, and when you strip the concept naked of power and money, shlichus is all beauty.
ReplyDeleteBring your relative into the 'fold'
ReplyDeleteLet him start worshipping the Rebbe.
Funny how Lubavitchers will make fun of others and not realize that theirs is the only group that has spouted a significant group that claims their deceased leader is alive with minor offshoots claiming he is actually 'running the show' aka in serious competition with the one above.
I was one of many who was uncomfortable with Rav Shachs scathing critique of Lubavitch, my own personal backround did not help since Lubavitch is in my roots (but that's not an issue, just a side point that made me less objective)Today (and years ago since the messianic/deity campaign)an objective, thinking person appreciates the foresight of an 'odom godol'
What if Lubavitch had saved themselves in time,,,,,,,,There would be no kooks running 770 and giving Chabad a bad name.A new leader would be farbrenging , saying Torah, accepting pan'im, etc......
VML
ReplyDeletewith all due respect, there would not be a new Rebbe regardless of Meshugoyim running around or not, but you knew that already.
Moshe,
ReplyDeleteWhen Christianity developed,which took a loooooong time btw,they did not take over our shuls, moisdos, yeshivas, etc. Here, those meshugoim are running the show in your shul,IN YOUR FACE,claiming to represent you.Regular Lubavitch doing diddly 'bout it,Some because they actually agree some resigned to accepting their fate.
Hirshel,with all due respect, had the normal people stopped the deification and meshugassen at the right time, THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A NEW REBBE!Obviously there would be difficulty and a break off or two something Lubavitch and most chasidic groups have been thru before.Hirsh, when you got on the Lubavitch train it had long left the normal stops, so this idea of a new manhig is so alien and such apikorsus to you.
Why not put this up to the blog test:Should Lubavitch attempt to appoint a new Rebbe?Let's see you address this here.
(I hope this idea can be handled in an more even manner than a certain bunch of cartoons published in Denmark)
'Also, the new Rebbe/ manhig topic is something that you simply cannot understand unless you have a personal shaychus to the issue. Chabad chassidim have certain legitimate (probably even by your standards of legitimacy) feelings about their Rebbe that you simply cannot identify with as an outsider. '
ReplyDeleteMoshe, so you are basically saying that the reason you are not getting a new Rebbe is because of 'feelings'.Well there is a point where you have to be grown up about feelings, this is not a very Torah true concept 'I won't get a new leader because I was so attached to my rebbe' .
Yiftach bedoro kishmuel bedoro, there has to a continuation
how about vlm for 'Sillyer Rebbe'?
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ReplyDeleteI concur with you, and I believe one day, ch"v if Moshiach doesn't come, and it may take 20 years, that a large group will accept a new Rebbe/Manhig.
I've just noticed that the parve article has suddenly started a debate all over again!!
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